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...history department is responsible for staffing two areas of the core, and history courses are required of many humanities and social sciences concentrators. Although visiting professors may be able to prevent the number of course offerings from slipping significantly, students will hesitate to enroll in classes where they are unfamiliar with the professor and cannot rely on the CUE guide or word-of-mouth recommendations. In addition, students will miss out on opportunities to take classes from some of Harvard’s most renowned scholars, including College Professor William E. Gienapp, who teaches a popular course on baseball...
Though viewers unfamiliar with Brecht’s work might find the abridged play difficult to follow and aficionados may nitpick the down-playing of certain themes, the work that emerges benefits from the alterations...
Visiting professors pose still another problem, Blackbourn said. The department has hired leading scholars, but because students may be unfamiliar with these professors, courses are more likely to be undersubscribed...
...understand the complications. The simplest immune reaction--triggered by a mosquito bite, for example, or an allergen--is inflammation. When the insect bites, the immune system uses cellular troops that have had no special training. Cells called leukocytes, neutrophils and mast cells routinely cruise the bloodstream sniffing for an unfamiliar chemical signature. If they find it, they signal for reinforcements that swarm to kill the invader--the equivalent of an infantry attack...
That work is important for more than p.r. reasons. When an unfamiliar disease hits, even doctors may not know what the signs of the illness are and what to do when patients turn up in their waiting rooms. If HHS, the CDC and other government agencies are jostling one another on the podium, the message is often mixed. And when you toss in the local police and the FBI--as was the case with anthrax--that mixed message turns to gibberish. During the hantavirus outbreak of 1993, the government handled the problem well, with Dr. C.J. Peters, then chief...