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...special training," she says. "Every member is trained to deal with explosives, every member has medical training, and the team trains year-round. The close-quarter combat skills you need to handle something like Littleton have to be constantly kept sharp." Local SWAT teams like Littleton's, by contrast, tend to train once a month. Equipment and specialized training varies wildly from team to team, and indeed the Littleton team did not have explosives training...
...busy student's eye, and campus posters are a remarkable testament to the fickle passions of the student spirit. Some posters, usually ads for sketchy shared apartments ("Seeking female roommate who loves rottweilers"), psychological experiments ("Are you manic-depressive?") or surveys at the Dental School ("Free Root Canal!") tend to stay up for decades. Others have half-lives around 40 minutes, like advertisements for the endless stream of speeches given by political has-beens, or the even more endless stream of a cappella jams with names that never get old--including "Jambidextrous," "Jambivalent," "Jamnesia," "Jamaica," "Jamputation," "Jamphetamines," "Jamniocentesis," "Jammonium Hydroxide...
...faculty who work alongside the institute's approximately 180 visiting scholars, which Scott said sets it apart from the new Radcliffe Institute. Permanent faculty members receive a lifetime appointment at the institute, and stay for an estimated 20 to 30 years. Faculty members, whose ranks have included Albert Einstein, tend to be world-renowned scholars in their fields...
...There are people who think there is too little science and there are those of us who think these things tend to take care of themselves," he says. "A single discipline can't see you through life...
...institute also has a smallpermanent faculty who work alongside theinstitute's approximately 180 visiting scholars,which Scott said sets it apart from the newRadcliffe Institute. Permanent faculty membersreceive a lifetime appointment at the institute,and stay for an estimated 20 to 30 years. Facultymembers, whose ranks have included AlbertEinstein, tend to be world renewed scholars intheir fields...