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...have animals that are butchered and experience extreme pain, and no longer have the use of their feet for all the things that cats use their feet for - exploring the world, jumping up and down, playing with things. If there are scratching issues, people have to be taught to have appropriate scratching posts in the right place, in the right way, for each individual cat. You learn how to clip the tip of the claw, which is very, very simple. It takes five or 10 seconds...
People have never been taught how to [attend to] a litter box properly. Cleanliness is next to godliness. People have never really been told that a litter box has to be kept squeaky clean. A cat is a very finicky creature. [If the litter box is dirty,] the cat will choose elsewhere. The other thing is the number of litter boxes: You need one per cat, plus one for the house ... When there are two cats, there [could be] territorial issues. By having multiple boxes, you make it more pleasant for them and you lower the chance of litter...
...Conant Professor of Education Judith D. Singer said in a speech Friday afternoon. Mosteller served as the department’s first chairman when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) established it, after a two-minute faculty debate, in 1957. Previously, statistics courses at Harvard had been taught within other departments. Statisticians at the event said the department has come a long way in half a century. Fifth-year graduate student Tingting Zhang, one of 20 students who presented their dissertations at the symposium, noted that “the department now offers more courses, and the range...
...ever envision becoming so prolific a builder of latrines? -Ricardo Fernandez, Orland Park, Ill. [Laughs.] Ethiopia has one of the highest incidences of blind?ness on earth because of trachoma, which is caused by filthy eyes. To eliminate flies, we taught people how to build very simple latrines. Women have adopted building them as a kind of liberation movement - there had been a rigid taboo against a woman relieving herself in the daytime - so although we thought we'd have about 10,000 latrines, we've passed 340,000. Now instead of my being famous for negotiating peace between Israel...
...public at large came to see poker as positive, that would then find expression in the law,” Nesson said. Andrew M. Wood, the executive director of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, also argued that poker should be taught to youth. “It’s a fantastic way to spend your time,” Wood, a third-year student at the Law School, said. “Much better than World of Warcraft...