Word: usefullness
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A college education may not teach the meaning of life or even how to live, but it should awaken a recognition of how much there is yet to learn—and for this, even Frege and an aged university can be a useful guide. No matter how much effort...
Aaron E. Shapiro, a rising senior at the Wharton School, says his pre-professional education has been useful in teaching him to work in groups and manage his time. And Shapiro speculates his training will make his transcript more attractive to future employers.
E-mail lends itself to impulsiveness, and to sweetness—there’s no easier way to send someone a short, cheery message. It is perfect for the late-night rhythm of a college campus, and useful for group discussions. But it also has severe limitations. During one...
But while it's tempting to think that ghrelin is a magic bullet that could be used to keep us all at a perfect weight, doctors think that's highly unlikely. Similar hopes were raised a few years ago for leptin, a hormone that acts as an appetite suppressant. After...
Lamb, a longtime foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, is best known as the author of useful and well-regarded introductions to some of the many worlds he has mastered (The Arabs, The Africans). In Vietnam, Now, he describes how, having covered the war as a journalist in his...