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Judith A. Li, an assistant professor of economics who teaches Ec 10 along with Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61, says that despite the class's large lecture size, most of the basic skills introduced in Ec 10 are taught in smaller sections of about 20 students...
...drinking a brew and listening to his roommate whine about dead MP3 links. Fanning, whose high school nickname was the Napster (a reference to his perpetually nappy hair), just shrugged. But he began thinking there might be a way to access files without going through a website. He had taught himself Unix programming between his junior and senior years at Harwich High in Cape Cod. And he knew enough to think such a program would have to be possible. "I had this idea that there was a lot of material out there sitting on people's hard drives," he says...
...songs. The simplicity of the program is part of its genius. Since he took only three months to write the source code, Fanning says he didn't have time to make it more complicated. He had to learn Windows programming in addition to Unix server code, which he had taught himself. It is exceedingly rare for one programmer to excel at client and server applications, but Fanning had no choice. "I had to focus on functionality, to keep it real simple," he says in his gravelly monotone. "With a few more months, I might have added a lot of stuff...
...believe growing up in the Soviet sports system under the communist government played a big part in who I am today as a person and as an athlete. I learned things that will stay with me for the rest of my life." The Soviet system taught him a work ethic, says Krayzelburg; the American system gave him a chance to exploit it. "The thing about America is...anything is possible," he says. Especially a Soviet boy's turning into an American Olympic champion...
...course promises to teach breathing techniques to reduce stress, increase energy and enhance mental acuity. According to the foundation's publications, the breathing skills taught can be effective in treating depression and other health concerns by bringing "the mind, body and emotions into harmony with the inner self...