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...language, architecture, customs or cuisine. The Portuguese were the first to arrive in the 16th century, settling among indigenous Indians as they established a local whaling industry. But by the mid-1800s they had been joined by whole communities of Germans, Italians and Austrians, who came to exploit the vast virgin forestland...
...moments when we are actually able to dedicate that level of comparison to an experience while we're having it are few and far between, Gilbert says. In the vast majority of scenarios, "the roads we don't take in life disappear a lot more quickly than we think they will...
...which will mean a decrease after adjusting for inflation—as evidence that the budget is “an uneven overall package in terms of supporting higher education and its research purposes.” Harvard currently receives about $400 million in federal funding annually, the vast majority of which is dedicated to scientific research and channeled to the University through the NIH. For other areas of scientific funding, the effects of the budget were mixed: The National Science Foundation and basic Department of Energy research saw large increases, while both the basic and applied research programs...
...amassed an incredibly broad knowledge of his subject and, most likely, attained unrivaled expertise in his specialty—whether it be Machiavelli or early American midwifery.As such, professors, if we trust the judgment of Harvard, are credible authorities in their fields and are qualified to pass on their vast knowledge to students, in perspicacious lectures, well-structured seminars, and carefully-selected reading lists. Such lights of the Academy ought to be entrusted with deciding what students should read and what they should learn. If not they, then who?According to the zeitgeist of the Faculty and of this venerable...
...pockets of hundreds of thousands of small farmers across the country. The boom should translate into votes for Abdullah's government and for the National Front, a coalition of more than a dozen political parties that has held a majority in parliament since the country became independent in 1957. "Vast stretches of rural Malaysia are backing Mr. Abdullah," says political scientist Shamsul Amri Baharuddin, professor of politics at the National University of Malaysia. "A two-thirds majority seems assured...