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...asked consumers which type of electronics item they would be most likely to buy for their children for school. Computers were the most popular item every time. This year, the most popular item was calculators, which makes sense. They're cheaper, and a tool for parents who want to teach their kids to be budget-conscious bean counters. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...
...potentially smarter than humans, which is exactly what The Cove does for dolphins. To watch bleeding dolphins struggle for their last breath, to actually hear their agony, is devastating. Even if you would never eat dolphin meat, you feel culpable just for being part of the species that can teach another mammal tricks, reward it with snacks and pats and at the same time be capable of getting up at dawn to poke it to death with spears...
...they will take in anybody, no matter how distantly related, if they need a place to stay or a meal. I've learned which "hotel" sells the best chapati-and-beans lunch, and made friends with a shopkeeper who now invites me in for chai. I've spent hours teaching in the primary schools, laughing as our students yell "semen" in Swahili at the top of their lungs while we teach about HIV transmission. I've walked around town wearing a paper hat and cape, spitting memorized Swahili phrases through a megaphone to encourage people to get tested...
...Harvard’s most prominent interdisciplinary scholars have been named University Professors—an honor that gives them the opportunity to teach in any Harvard school...
...that King and Kirshner are allowed to freely teach across Harvard’s schools, King said he’d like to teach in the School of Public Health, and Kirschner said that he’d be interested in teaching an FAS seminar on evolutionary biology, based on an FAS seminar he co-taught a decade...