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...less quantifiable way,” Xu said. “You see connections that you wouldn’t see if you just read texts of Hippocrates,” Xu said. This approach to a normally “pre-med” topic is one of the reasons the course was one of the first to be approved course was one of the first to be approved for the new General Education curriculum. “We want students in their liberal arts education to really learn things that are going to reflect who they...
Excrement. Stool. Defecation. S___. This unlikely tour of the underworld of human waste grew out of the author's 2006 series on sewage for the online magazine Slate. George, an accomplished London-based writer, has inarguably hit on an important topic. As many as 2.6 billion people lack sanitation--meaning no access to a latrine, a toilet, a bucket or even a box. The health consequences are, not surprisingly, catastrophic: "A gram of feces," George writes, "can contain 10 million viruses, 1 million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 worm eggs." The privileged Westerner winces. Yet in an upbeat...
...Christian. I have been sworn in with a Bible...I lead the pledge of allegiance sometimes in the United States Senate when I’m presiding.” The question did not have anything to do with the pledge of allegiance; to even raise the topic sustains the false opposition between Islam on the one hand and patriotism on the other...
...This is a very timely and important topic to EPA and the nation,” said Stephanie H. Willett, the team leader for the EPA graduate fellowship program...
...communities in economic development while Pande brought up the impact of widespread corruption on entrepreneurship. As moderator, Bhabha injected a fair amount of humor into the proceedings, yet he also provided one of the most probing questions: “Why is the China-India question such a hot topic?” Once audience members were invited to participate, the lively discussion continued for nearly two hours. “I think the Humanities Center does a great job of bringing people together,” Khanna said. “I learned a lot, which I think...