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However, additions to the Core can take time, as new courses must undergo a lengthy examination process...
Bean, a mid-year transfer, says she had only two days to choose her concentration. After deciding on history and literature, the Dunster House resident says, she was told offhandedly that she would have to submit an application and undergo an interview the next morning...
Beginning this semester, work-study tutors will undergo basic training in the fundamentals of reading instruction for children in a program called HAND Readers. Volunteers who are not on work-study can also get the training...
During the first years of life, the brain undergoes a series of extraordinary changes. Starting shortly after birth, a baby's brain, in a display of biological exuberance, produces trillions more connections between neurons than it can possibly use. Then, through a process that resembles Darwinian competition, the brain eliminates connections, or synapses, that are seldom or never used. The excess synapses in a child's brain undergo a draconian pruning, starting around the age of 10 or earlier, leaving behind a mind whose patterns of emotion and thought are, for better or worse, unique...
...mother that people who call noodles pasta are not just showing off. Black humor prevails even in the darkest hours. When Julia joins her brother as a cancer patient, they start answering the telephone, "International House of Cancer." Just three days after Mike's death, Julia has to undergo a hysterectomy, and her doctor suggests that she might want to harvest a few eggs from her still-functioning ovaries, which could later be fertilized by a sperm donor and carried to term by a surrogate mother. "Oh great," she muses, "now I have to meet a guy and a girl...