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...performance as a lecturer, Gilbert strives to reach his students through honesty and openness; after the final exam, he encourages enrollees to write anonymous questions, which he answers on the course Web site. Questions range from course specific: “How much do you make off of each textbook?” (“4.5 percent of the purchase price... but all royalties on sales to my own students are donated to a charity chosen by the student(s) who achieve the highest score in the class.”) to far more personal: “Have...
...said Economics professor Attila Ambrus, “then you would probably expect less people.” But Ambrus’ thinking had a qualifier—not every one of FAS’ approximately 700 voting members thinks like a character in an economics textbook. “I guess the question is how strategically the members of the Faculty will act,” he said. “Most of the people who usually show up at these meetings don’t think strategically, then probably there won’t be a big difference...
...Even though Chinese authorities have had almost two decades to learn the lessons of Tiananmen Square - after which it spent time in the diplomatic doghouse - the events in Lhasa were almost a textbook example of how not to handle a crisis: dithering and indecision followed by the application of massive force. For almost two days, rioters met with little resistance from security officers, a sure sign of bureaucratic paralysis, according to Wenran Jiang, director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta. Requests for instructions were making their way torturously up the chain of command. Making matters worse, many...
...diminishing power supply means the Ulysses mission ends on March 30, but the textbook rewrites will go on as fresh ships continue to take the place of old ones. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which will launch later this year, will conduct the most comprehensive surveys of the moon the U.S. has ever attempted, using cameras that can spot an object as small as a football. The mission will help scout for landing sites, as NASA is holding fast to its plans to return astronauts to the moon by 2020. LRO will also hunt for signs of water...
...severe disadvantage. Junior Sarah Newman and senior Carrie Thompson were both sent to the penalty box within a minute of each other, giving the Crimson a 5-on-3 power play.Harvard capitalized on the opportunity when Vaillancourt struck again, one-timing a pass from junior Katie Vaughn on a textbook play, to give the Crimson a 4-1 lead and essentially put the game out of reach for the Big Green.“It kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little bit,” Hudak said. “I really think that that...