Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Internet, completely changing the way many professors and students do research. Consider: I have not had to visit a library for the past three months while researching my thesis. Whenever I come across a reference to a paper I would like to read. I just use Mosaic, a tool that accesses the World Wide Web, to look it up. A single click brings it home to say hard-drive, where I simply print...
Another perception of service-learning is that it forcibly imposes values of goodness and righteousness onto students. Both views are completely wrong, and Mr. Mulkerin unfortunately played on those two misperceptions to cast an unfairly negative light on a truly innovative and remarkable educational tool...
...open to new ideas such as service-learning, which isn't as bad as Mr. Mulkerin would have it seem. Many people laugh it off and dismiss it because of faulty perceptions that are held towards "community service in our classes," but service-learning is indeed a very powerful tool in education and we cannot afford to ignore it. --Christopher...
...firing tear-gas canisters. In front of the harbor, the Haitian authorities conducted brief sorties, beating anyone who fell or faltered. They broke up a demonstration by hurtling through the middle of the crowd in a van. One police officer attacked bystanders with a yard-long crowbar, using the tool's hook to gouge the flesh of his targets. Another slammed his truncheon onto the unprotected skull of a house painter, killing him. "This is not Europe, my friend," said a Haitian to a nearby journalist. "This is hell...
...embargo is a valuable tool which should be continued, along with the new punitive measures that have been adopted in the wake of the rafters, until Fidel Castro agrees to step down and hold fair elections monitored by the United Nations. The problem of Cuba is not now, and never has been, the American embargo. The problem of Cuba is Fidel Castro...