Word: wilson
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Edward O. Wilson, Baird Professor of Science, readily acknowledges that his scientific colleagues at Harvard will seldom leap at the chance of teaching an elementary science course. Even the bait of a high status Core course is not enough to lure them to face the ignorant masses. But Wilson doesn't feel that way. He presents himself as "one of a minority" among the professors in his department who has supported the Core from the beginning...
...Wilson says most of his associates in the Biology and Biochemistry Departments "tend to be deeply engrossed in research" and have difficulty translating their activity into a language they think undergraduates can understand. But Wilson's Science Core course, Science B-15, "Evolutionary Biology," proposes to do just that by integrating current research on social behavior in organisms into an introductory biology course...
...Wilson offered his course under Gen Ed as Natural Sciences 6. But Wilson this year has adjusted the course to fit more precisely the Core guidelines...
...sponsors for the U.S. Open, which is held every September in New York City, have failed to renew their pledges. Most telling of all, sales of racquets, which peaked at $184 million in 1976, skidded to $137 million last year and are expected to fall another 30% this year. Wilson Sporting Goods, the PepsiCo subsidiary that introduced the first steel racquet in 1967, has been losing money and is widely rumored to be up for sale...
...Education and Society: The Harvard Tradition" will be a big draw, mostly because it is a general enough topic for anyone. James Q. Wilson is widely recognized as a good performer, even by those who consider his authoritarian and bureaucratic leanings a little on the fascist side...