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Hammonds encouraged students to text their friends and within 15 minutes, the three trays of chicken burritos and one tray of vegetable burritos were all gone...
...Harvard was not the only project on display. Projects ranged from tools to test musical frequencies to a service by Julia S. Howland '12 that sends you realtime sports information. Text "gocrim" followed by a sport to 41411 (the same number as ShuttleBoy) and you'll get information on latest scores and times...
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...also believes that science fiction can train students to better understand the nuances of what they read, whatever the genre. “Part of learning to read attentively is learning to pick up on those signals a text gives out about what you should expect, so you can see when that text and its language violate those expectations,” Burt says. Originality, in other words, is only perceptible if the reader knows what conventions have been broken...
According to Burt, science fiction, as a highly self-conscious genre, lends itself to this sort of analysis. But being cognizant of how a text expects to be read, he says, is as important for comprehending poetry as it is for understanding science fiction. For Burt, the experience of reading Robert Heinlein and Octavia Butler is similar to going line-by-line through the poetry of John Ashbery or Jorie Graham. Reading science fiction helps students grasp other literature as much as it encourages them to ponder space ships, telekinesis, and sentient robots...