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...Freshman Seminar program began four decades ago as an attempt to improve undergraduate education during the first year of college. Today, seminars thrive due to their unique format. Somewhat less formal than other first-year courses, the seminars are graded pass-fail, limited to 12 students, and focused in depth on one specialized subject of interest to the professor—from calculating pi in Freshman Seminar 5 to searching for extraterrestrial intelligence in Freshman Seminar 35: “Are We Alone?” This structure contributes significantly to the seminars’ success, as students actively participate...
...wither and die. The merger, of course, never even got out of the hangar, and so this week the top brains at US Airways have finally let the rest of the world in on their "Plan B" - by which US Airlines would not only survive on its own, but thrive...
...that's true of big carmakers, Howe retorts, but MG Rover has repositioned itself as a nimble manufacturer of niche products, selling between 200,000 and 250,000 cars a year, which means it needs less than 5% of the British and 1% of the Continental European markets to thrive. Howe complains that critics rely on "paradigms which are usually governed by the Ford-type examples - that you need a billion pounds to develop a new car and you need to sell a million cars a year to be cost-effective. Which is not true since [for us]." Rover executives...
...blind thrive on patterns: stairs are all the same height, city blocks roughly the same length, curbs approximately the same depth. They learn to identify the patterns in their environment much more than the sighted population do, and to rely on them to plot their way through the world...
...blind thrive on patterns: stairs are all the same height, city blocks roughly the same length, curbs approximately the same depth. They learn to identify the patterns in their environment much more than the sighted population do, and to rely on them to plot their way through the world...