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...want world-class scientists at all costs, we need to place our best and brightest students with our most qualified math and science teachers and relieve those teachers of the frustration of trying to teach students who are unable to master the subjects...
...Collier wrote. “It’s not a big drive, more that we are trying to strengthen existing links,” Collier wrote. Collier admitted that Oxford views Harvard and the other Ivy League schools as competition. “We view ourselves as a world-class university and would like to attract the best students in the world—as do the Ivy League universities,” Collier wrote. Harvard College Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 said that Harvard is not specifically concerned about...
...from leaving Cambridge. Such doubts are especially common among students in the sciences, where sequenced curricula depend on consistently solid instruction. Last year, science concentrators represented a disproportionately small number of total students studying abroad (only 15 percent). Recruiting Harvard science faculty to teach abroad and developing partnerships with world-class laboratories and institutions must remain a priority for study abroad programming. Most importantly, while the latest developments in the Harvard Summer School study abroad programs are commendable, we urge the College to use these programs as a model to invest in term-time international programs as well. Furthermore...
...copy it in earnest. Finland decided back in the 1970s to focus on electronics and a handful of other high-tech industries, and now has the most research scientists per capita in the world. South Korea decided to concentrate on reproductive technology, and although the research of superstar Hwang Woo Suk has been exposed as mostly fraudulent, the country has plenty of other world-class experts in cloning and stem-cell research...
...says--and she's been writing songs since her teens, but rather than argue over labels or abilities, she and Davis, 72, reached a dtente. Clarkson wrote or co-wrote six Breakaway tracks, including one certifiable hit, Behind These Hazel Eyes, and the rest were collected from world-class song doctors and produced by studio veterans. "I'm 100% happy with my album," says Clarkson. "I just think it's funny that all these middle-age guys told me, 'You don't know how a pop song needs to sound.' I'm a 23-year-old girl...