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Restrictions were made for wholly practical reasons—students want to find a seat in their own dining halls. But they may yield a brilliant and unplanned side effect: restrictions contain within them the first seeds to re-germinate Harvard’s struggling House communities. Imagine if each House imposed resident-only hours for dining halls—the whole weekend, say, or perhaps just Sunday brunch. It would have the following effect...
...currently a student-oriented volume more informative to instructors as well. Given the insufficiency of the current CUE Guide format to satisfy the needs of all those involved in undergraduate education, the CUE should continue in its plans to rewrite its evaluative course survey in a manner that will yield helpful information to teachers as well as students...
...same time, GM, DaimlerChrysler and BMW have teamed up to open a research and technical center in the Detroit suburbs that probably won't yield vehicles until 2010. So the carmakers are looking for incremental improvements in software, electronics, battery storage and even the internal combustion engine itself to make hybrids even more efficient. That latter includes high-compression combustion engines that run without spark plugs. Mike Gauthier, director of corporate technology for Siemens VDO, an auto electronics company in Auburn Hills, Michigan, says future hybrids also will use more sophisticated combustion engines as well as more complex electrical components...
...number-evaluation program initially associates each space in the grid with every number possibility from 1 to 9. When the user inputs numbers, possibilities are removed depending on where the numbers are placed. The program then applies a series of rules that yield a grid of solutions, Zakharevich explained...
...fairly universal. The more general problem of standardization remains to be addressed. Rosenbaum said that standardization is an issue wherever new technologies are concerned. According to the Center for Information Technology Leadership—a health IT research organization—the widespread implementation of health IT could yield annual U.S. savings of nearly $78 billion...