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...site features a little-known tool for students trying to decide between the two programs. The “Planning Worksheet (Gen Ed vs. Core)” is a downloadable PDF file that students can fill out based on prospective concentration possibilities, allowing them to see which program better suits their needs. The worksheet asks students to find courses that fulfill the requirements in each of the programs, check off completed requirements, and evaluate their findings...
...problem when he published the first Moody’s Analyses of Railroad Investments in 1909. Moody prefaced the book with a note about its scope, cautioning that it was “in no sense a ‘manual’” and instead a tool to enable investors to “analyze the conditions back of all security values.” Like his future competitors, Moody specifically intended his credit ratings to enable analysis rather than be ends in themselves. Nonetheless, by 1970, when the firm switched to a “corporation...
...years, the Bush Administration defended its harsh interrogation methods against accusations of torture by portraying them as a measured intelligence gathering tool that wouldn't be allowed to get out of hand. But with the release of the Justice Department interrogation memos ordered by President Obama last week, it has become clear that the use of waterboarding seemed to occasionally get out of control...
...water, over and over again, until they were on the edge of drowning. (The Chilean military liked to foul the water with urine, feces or worse, something that-so far-hasn't been known to be a part of U.S. waterboarding of terrorism suspects.) Submarino became a popular tool for military interrogators, in part because it left relatively few permanent physical marks...
...because it's a cultural thing. You have to remember that traditionally, animals have been hunted and used without problem for thousands and thousands of years. Native peoples use walruses for food. They build boats out of their hide. And ivory has been a means of income - a bartering tool - for generations. But then there are the people who will kill an entire walrus just for its ivory tucks, and that is illegal. It's not hunting that's the problem, it's the wastefulness and the indiscriminate nature of hunting. [At the same time], hunters are typically the ones...