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...migration and colonization have spurred the creation of English works from literally every corner of the map. The new common-ground modules emphasize the flexibility and adaptability of the English language and its study, and allow students who are interested in English literature’s diverse origins and vast diffusions the ability to pursue that course of study.Unfortunately, the descriptions of the common-ground modules in the department’s proposal muddle the purity of the designers’ intentions. Littered with postmodern jargon, these “modules” become parodies of themselves. The idea...
Hoffman said that while he may have put his research on hold in favor of his teaching, he said the vast knowledge he has accumulated over the years is largely a result of just that choice...
...vast majority of transplant surgeons want to give organs to those who get the greatest benefit from them, but the system around them is failing them,” Herring said...
...company is focusing its early investments on East Africa, an area with vast amounts of underground heat and little means to tap it. The company plans to start exploratory drilling next year to build a geothermal plant in Djibouti. In July, the government of the Philippines awarded a Filipino-Icelandic consortium exploration rights to half of Biliran Island in the country's south. Twenty years ago, three boreholes were drilled on Biliran and then abandoned when the underground liquid at the other end of the drill was found to be too acidic. Since then, the industry has learned...
...some of its venerated palazzi to raise money. But, says Rafael Bras, dean of the engineering school at the University of California at Irvine and chair of the committee overseeing MOSES, another change in the global climate is helping. The worldwide financial crisis has prompted governments to throw vast amounts of money into public works to stimulate their economies. And so MOSES is finally getting its share. Who knew the Adriatic wanted that kind of bailout...