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...would have been less affecting. However, like his novels, “Eating Animals” often uses graphics, such as a small box the size of an industrial chicken cage, to illustrate a point. This is almost always trite and unnecessary, and undermines his credibility as a serious thinker about an important issue...

Author: By Abigail B. Lind, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Silent Suffering of ‘Animals’ | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...struck by the celebration of links as a way of expanding knowledge,” said Christopher Queen, a religion professor who just stepped down as the Extension School’s dean of students. “To me, the definition of a critical thinker is one who can decline to link an existing problem to every possible source, who can focus in and look deeper...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay and Julia L Ryan, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Panel Discusses Online Education | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...George Hayward is an innovative thinker,” Ebrahim said, noting that Hayward’s plan to improve cell phone service in the Quad was a “solution no one else would have thought...

Author: By Julia L Ryan and Linda Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Hayward-Zhang Tout Results | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...effective any of these steps will be. But Alessandro has already proved his abilities at the private-equity firm he founded, and Michael Porter, a Harvard Business School professor whom Alessandro describes as a mentor, says he thinks very highly of him. "He is a strategic thinker who has kept improving his skills as a manager and leader," Porter says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benetton's Faded Colors | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...stuff first, like they'll drink beer. I didn't do that so much as really begin to read outside the stuff I'd been trained on. So I began to read about other religions and read philosophy and literature. When you get immersed in that as a young thinker, it tends to stretch you a little bit. (See pictures of Oktoberfest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhoda Janzen: From Modern to Mennonite | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

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