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Serious questions have also been raised about the Cooper client base, disproportionately made up of motivated people who are not terribly obese and, significantly, well-to-do and white--a more than trivial problem when the obesity crisis hits hardest in poor and minority communities...
While Harvard touts its many big name professors, we hear much less about Harvard’s world-renowned teachers. The distinction may seem trivial, but it is not. It’s great to have professors with excellent reputations and distinguished accomplishments, but these in themselves don’t make a two-hour lecture stimulating or even bearable. What grabs our attention, makes the time fly by, and, in some cases, even sparks our inspiration are great teachers. We all hope for professors or teaching fellows (TFs) who are not only knowledgeable but engaging, not only experts...
...first problems Allard had to solve was what the new Xbox would look like. It's not a trivial question. The old Xbox is large and forbidding, a matte black and poisonous green plastic crate the size of a VCR. Perfect for hard-core gamers, maybe, but if Microsoft wanted to grow its audience, Allard knew the new Xbox had to look kinder and gentler. The goal was a design that was welcoming but not wimpy, that snagged the soccer moms and NASCAR dads and Britney girls--without losing the Halo boys...
...spends over $30 billion a year supporting research,” he said. “We will invest our money where there is the most impact—$150,000 is not a huge sum, but it’s not a trivial sum either...
...said the technical changes necessitated by the policy shift “were essentially trivial...