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Koestner could have emerged, without alteration, from Katie Roiphe's semi-literate but controversial polemic against date rape, The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism on Campus. Hers is a textbook case of what occurs at that murky intersection where naivete, sexual jousting and irresponsibility collide...
...point on earth, at any time, past or present. Thompson's course has always been popular, but in recent years it has achieved an almost cultlike status at the school. Though a vivid lecturer and the co-author of what was for years the country's top-selling astronomy textbook, Thompson has traded the chalk-and-talk approach for a task-oriented mode of teaching, using Voyager. His students do not ``study'' astronomy; they become astronomers. From September through June, they complete a series of tasks, using computer-based tools like the ones astronomers use. Each task builds...
...look up Soldier Field. My old Analytic Geometry textbook, still flecked with insulation from the attic, has been sitting on my thigh like a lump of ice. By combining some formulas from it with the encyclopedia's stats...
...textbook example of the "small world" phenomenon, Charles A. Peterson '96 discovered that a stranger who sent him a message over the Internet Relay Channel (IRC) shared a friend in common with...
...only bargain in textbook shopping this semester: students buying sourcebooks for their spring classes get an arithmetic lesson for free. Prices have skyrocketed due to increased enforcement of copyright laws, according to sourcebook publishers...