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Rather than merely forcing teachers to expend more hours in the classroom, smart school reform must center on reinforcing and rewarding high-quality and high-impact teaching. In the end, teachers who want to improve will benefit students the most...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Giving Teachers Carrots | 4/16/2010 | See Source »

Looking to take advantage of passes on the perimeter, Lin and sophomore guard Max Kenyi both had two steals in the first half, but on occasion, Harvard didn’t even need to expend any effort to regain possession...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Patient Defense Anchors Victory | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

...thirty seven years later, much of society seems to agree. Entire industries and lives revolve around this belief. Every self-conscious teenager recoils at the idea yet spends an undue amount of time looking in the mirror. Aesthetics affect us whether we like it or not, for people expend great energy seeking their own ideal of how things should look. But how much do our own aesthetic ideals lead to an irrational satisfaction or disappointment in our academic lives...

Author: By Diana McKeage | Title: Aesthetics and Academics | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

...read” a book these days is to skim through it, skip around chapters when you can, and hunt for the book’s key ideas before moving on to the next title on your list. And while time constraints and a general unwillingness to expend intellectual energy are certainly not conducive to thorough reading, let me suggest that the reason you haven’t really read a book since, say, the eighth grade is not entirely your fault. After all, this is the Information Age, an age that values the immediate dissemination and processing of information...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: A Look at the Vook | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...Some research has found that the obese already "exercise" more than most of the rest of us. In May, Dr. Arn Eliasson of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center reported the results of a small study that found that overweight people actually expend significantly more calories every day than people of normal weight - 3,064 vs. 2,080. He isn't the first researcher to reach this conclusion. As science writer Gary Taubes noted in his 2007 book Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health, "The obese tend to expend more energy than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin | 8/9/2009 | See Source »

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