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Although the two reports were prepared entirely independently and with different sources of input, they both came to the conclusion that Harvard students need to know more about quantitative methods. This is not such an unreasonable conclusion given the current tilt in the Core toward the humanities, but one that is likely to elicit a negative reaction from many undergraduates. This is because most people simply do not like math. To a majority of the population (even at Harvard), the word can prompt feelings of terror, fear and even disgust. Indeed, it is a disturbing national trend that ignorance...
...telling women to begin mammography exams at 40. Although all agree yearly mammograms should start at age 50, current scientific opinion is divided on whether exams between the ages of 40 and 49 are necessary and cost-effective. While this new study doesn't resolve that dispute, it could tilt the balance...
Another troubling document is an April 1996 E-mail message from NSC's Suettinger that warned Vice President Gore about attending a fund-raising lunch at a Buddhist temple near Los Angeles. Gore's attendance, he said, would appear to give U.S. policy a pro-Taiwan, anti-China tilt at a time of great tension between the two. "My reaction would be one of great, great caution." The State Department expressed similar concerns. The result? Gore went, but there were no Taiwanese flags flying to make for uncomfortable photo ops, and no Taiwanese politicians playing a visible role. The lunch...
...Kennedy School has shifted to the right in recent months--and the move seems to be effective. The New Members of Congress Conference is back--with a conservative tilt--after the temporary exile of many Republican members to The Heritage Foundation in 1994. Since shedding its liberal slant, the Kennedy School has finally emerged with a thankfully bipartisan point of view...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Forecast: Indicators tilt slightly toward a milder-than-normal winter in most of the southern half of the country, a dryer-than-normal winter in the northern Rockies and the Florida Peninsula and a wetter-than-normal winter in much of the south central portions of the country. Methodology: Computer analysis of global atmospheric and oceanic data...