Word: trivialization
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...survey should also seek to evaluate the teaching quality of professors and teaching fellows more precisely. As it stands, the CUE Guide prints comments concerning instructors’ teaching abilities that are sometimes trivial. For example, the fact that a professor speaks too softly in lecture does not carry nearly as much import as whether or not students are actually mastering the course material. The rewritten survey should allow students to specifically identify their instructors’ pedagogical shortcomings; the oft-repeated comment that a “professor is disorganized,” for instance, is too general...
...This method assumes that we have a right to manipulate the embryo to begin with,” he said. “There is no obvious benefit to the embryo, in fact, there is a very significant chance for harm—these are not trivial manipulations.” Nor are religious conservatives are completely satisfied with these results.“Seeking alternative ways to obtain pluripotent stem cells without creating or harming embryos is certainly a good idea, but it’s not clear that either of these approaches fills the bill...
...that Seth cannot fully understand, but in the final version forgives. After all, the man was family, and thus familiarly human. "Behind every door," writes Seth toward the end of Two Lives, "on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village on this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found." Seth found them in an unexpected place: his own family...
...Harnessing the power of social networking is viewed as a key component of the soon-to-explode local advertising market, which will be worth $10.9 billion globally by 2009, according to analysts Kelsey Group. The individual pages contained on any of these sites or their blogging cousins may appear trivial: minutiae about cats' feeding habits, or the favorite break-up songs of teenage girls. But companies are banking on the notion that, in the aggregate, these pages represent a gold mine of credible consumer information. "Whether you are referring someone to either a great restaurant or a local hairstylist, since...
...gonna protect me on this, right?" the magic words. When someone in Washington makes that request and a journalist agrees to the deal, a blood oath has been signed, no matter how scurrilous or trivial the information involved. You don't break the oath or even hedge on it. You agree to stand outside the law respectfully, not "above" it, and to suffer the consequences. You go to jail to protect your source, if necessary. If you do not adhere to these tribal rules, other potential sources will surely notice and you will be considered unreliable...