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Even at a research institute like Harvard. teachers should be judged based on their teaching ability. Teaching evaluations do make up a part of the tenure review process. But, Bybee says, the national audience that candidates aim to impress isn’t really concerned with whether undergraduates found lecture handouts helpful. So teaching quality is not strictly part of the tenure incentive structure, which means that often popular teachers don’t stick around that long. This is not just because tenure is impossible to get, but also because Harvard’s hiring structure includes many...
...what's really going on under DON IMUS' cowboy hat when he's glowering off into the distance? Last week smart money would say it had something to do with HOWARD STERN. The longer-haired of the two radio shock jocks took aim at Imus' charity ranch in New Mexico, where the famously cantankerous broadcaster puts up kids with cancer and gives them chores (example: gardening) intended to heighten appreciation for old-fashioned, outdoorsy values. On his show, Stern termed the ranch a "scam." "These cancer kids show up, and Imus just lets them work on the ranch for free...
...pilot recalls. Jumper didn't actually engineer the missile-firing drone, but he oversaw and championed its development. Even more important, he fought the bureaucratic battles needed to get it into the air. On Feb. 21, he prevailed: in a test conducted in the Nevada desert, a Predator took aim at a tank with a Hellfire missile and scored a direct hit. The system worked so well that it was pressed into service in October, well ahead of the military's typically plodding development schedule...
...threatening to flounce out of the meeting if such a plan were accepted, Zoellick came up with a face-saving caveat. The words phasing out were kept, but they were preceded by "without prejudging the outcome of the negotiations," meaning that there was no need actually to achieve that aim...
...students. This may mean that TFs should reschedule their Wednesday sections for another week— maybe during reading period—or even that professors should cancel all sections for the week of Thanksgiving. And, if they choose to hold Wednesday lectures at all, professors should aim to enrich rather than to present essential material...