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...adds up to just a few hours of class time per course, shopping period helps determine students’ plans for a whole semester’s worth of learning. Classes generally meet two or three times before study cards are due, and students shopping many courses often base their choices on a single meeting. Burning the first day discussing where to buy coursepacks and textbooks, clarifying due dates for papers and explaining the calculation of final grades is a waste of time. It is exceedingly boring to stand in a packed classroom and listen to a professor read...
Doherty said the statue receives a couple hundred visitors a day, many of whom leave tokens. Rosary beads were draped over the statue’s hand. Bouquets of flowers, stuffed animals, prayer cards, notes and candles decorated the base...
Already leading 7-4, Texas Tech put six straight men on base to open the third, leading Harvard coach Joe Walsh to pull Hendricks for sophomore Javier Castellanos. But three-hole hitter Michael Mask welcomed Castellanos to the game with a three-run homer. It was one of three homers for Mask during the game...
...same-sex marriage. "After more than two centuries of American jurisprudence and millennia of human experience," said Bush, "a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization." With that, the President put himself firmly in the camp of his restless conservative base. Not incidentally, Bush also opened the way to make gay marriage the ultimate wedge issue in November, even though, when all is said and done, Bush and Democratic front runner John Kerry are not that far apart on the issue. They both oppose gay marriage and would oppose extending...
Shigeyuki Hori looks like your average Japanese salaryman, but at heart he's a speed demon. Once a week the Toyota engineer heads to the company test track at the base of Mount Fuji to try out new models. There he dons a crash helmet, and in a one-on-one communion between car and creator, he barrels his work-in-progress around a track at upwards of 120 m.p.h. The 51-year-old admits he's addicted to the speed rush. "When I'm out there on the track, I'm fearless," he says. Fearlessness has been a useful...