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...relationship between the Institute and undergraduates is another challenge that Faust will face. Although Radcliffe has severed most of its official ties to students, Faust has suggested that room for informal interaction still exists in the form of seminars, conferences and mentorships for example. This is a sound approach. Our only hope is that this type of informal interaction is not simply viewed as some secondary side-effect, but incorporated into the Institute's primary mission of advancing study in women and gender issues...
...such as racial profiling and the causes of the English Revolution. Sections are helpful, of course, but their main importance is in laying the groundwork for further exchanges of ideas that would rarely occur without the physical proximity of other students. Distance learning, in contrast, is a very individual approach to learning complemented only by infrequent chatroom discussions...
Managers must be careful not to swing too far the other way though, warns Olivier Zitoun, CEO of Eveo.com an online digital-video broadcaster. A democratic approach can get messy, he says, and stall the decision-making process...
...heard people say that sitting with a bunch of tense test-takers makes them very tense," says Dena O. Rakoff, director of pre-law advising for the Office of Career Services. "I've heard people say they've lost the intuitive approach they came to the test prep program with...and now they can't get back to their own. The experiences are not always panaceas...
...members of the Human Genome Project, which is funded by National Institutes of Health, are warning that exuberance over the most recent announcement may be misplaced. The federal scientists have long taken issue with Celera's techniques, saying that the public project is taking a more thorough approach to the mapping. "There are gaps in Celera's gene sequence," says Thompson. "But what the public project doesn't like to say is that there are big gaps in their sequences as well. Right now we simply don't have the technology to clone some chromosomes." And as for the medical...