Word: teaching
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Harvard Medical School obviously does not teach its students professional ethics, since many of its alumni do not repay their student loans. Auvo I. Kemppinen Ballwin...
...experience with the embargo that President Carter declared two years ago after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Says Jared Hoover, who farms 1,400 acres outside Abilene, Kans.: "I can understand suspending talks on a new agreement with Moscow. But we should have enough history under our belts to teach us a lesson. Despite Carter's embargo, the Russians got all the grain they needed. They didn't suffer as much...
...Arkansas law had a surface plausibility: it merely required that if public schools teach the theories of "evolution science," they must also teach the theories of "creation science." But last week Federal Judge William Overton had little trouble determining that something constitutionally improper was going on under that surface. "The two-model approach of the creationists is simply a contrived dualism," wrote the judge. Creation science "is not science because it depends upon supernatural intervention, which is not guided by natural law." And since it is not science, "the conclusion is inescapable that the only real effect...
...direction, the Monitor was known for incisive international coverage and interpretive news writing. A farm boy who made it to Oxford, he joined the Monitor in 1925 and was named editor in chief in 1964. Canham served in a variety of civic positions, but still found time to teach Christian Science Sunday school class. After retiring from the Monitor in 1974, he was named resident commissioner of the Northern Mariana Islands...
Ruskin was intermittently mad during the last years of his long life (he died in 1900), and during his periods of sanity he liked to talk babytalk. His biographer is indulgent, however, and her tone seems correct. Ruskin's passion, after all, was to teach Truth, and not once in 80 years did he doubt-for a modern reader, this is the wonder-that he knew what Truth...