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...veterans - these topics get him excited. In the domestic realm, he's fire and energy when he rails against pork-barrel spending. But mention other issues - taxes, health care, education policy - and he briefly resorts to talking points before changing the subject. "Obviously, the economy is a very, very vital issue," he told me. "There's no doubt about that, O.K.? But the issue that's going to be with us after the economy recovers is the challenge of radical Islamic extremism, of which Iraq is the central battleground...
Relying on data from the Utah Population Database (UPDB), a genetics goldmine that combines Mormon genealogy records with vital statistics and cancer records, researchers were able to identify many of the Fry descendants. The UPDB has records on 6 million people dating back to those born in the 1700s - the most extensive genealogical resource in the world. "The only place comparable would be Iceland, but they only have some 250,000 people countrywide," says Geraldine Mineau, who oversees the database...
...down the harbor a stone's throw from the skyscrapers of the banks and trading houses. London and New York, by contrast, politely hide their tattooed seafarers' muscle out of sight, downriver or on the Jersey shore. But the sense of being a blue-water place is vital to the cities' success. It has made them open to trade, with all the transformative capacity that trade has to shake up established orders and make the exotic familiar...
...their lives have turned out. There is little that feels more affirming and revitalizing than having someone fall in love with you. (It follows, then, that there's little that feels less affirming than being cheated on.) Flirting is a decaf affair, a way of feeling more alive, more vital, more desirable without actually endangering the happiness of anyone you love--or the balance of your bank account. So go ahead and flirt, if you can do it responsibly. You might even try it with your spouse...
...described his own practice of using “minute questionnaires” at the end of each lecture to evaluate what students thought was best or worst about the lecture in order to extract feedback from his class. Pilbeam said the information professors receive from the evaluations is vital.“I gather that some students don’t realize that the faculty actually read them,” Pilbeam said.QUALITY CONTROLOther professors say Q responses have grown less thoughtful since the switch from paper to online forms in 2005—a move originally aimed...