Word: basic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After a night in Kratie (there are several basic hotels, all less than $10), it's seven hours to Stung Treng. An American visitor in the 1920s described the town as "a savage little poem," and there is little to see. But you must stop to obtain permission to cross the border, either from the immigration office ($1) or the Sekong Hotel ($20, but hassle-free). The last three hours to the border are by outboard-powered dug-out. The going is slow but the pace affords fine views of the delta at its most pristine. The thick jungle harbors...
...nontraditional healers on these pages have gone further. They have created new pathways to health while remaining true to the most basic creed of the medical canon: First, do no harm...
...credible explanation, or criticism, of the pattern of rising grades at Harvard must take into account at least the basic realities. The increase in grades did not start in the late 1960s; the graph shows that it was already happening in the 1920s. Indeed, grade inflation was a worry even the 19th century: a special 1894 “Committee on Raising the Standard” rued that “in the present practice Grades A and B are sometimes given too readily,—Grade A for work of not very high merit, and Grade...
...Harvard offers a liberal arts education. This has no practical purpose. I study government. Not political science; government. I learn about tyranny of the majority, not health care. Rather than learning about basic accounting or business management, as my brother at Virginia Tech does, my bookshelf is full of Thoreau and my checkbook is a mess. I am learning how to think, although I have nothing that practical to think about (something you may have noticed from this column). Not that I mind, I may never get rich, but as one government professor noted, I will never be bored...
...news refueled some ancient rivalries, revived the most basic questions about what price our children pay for the hours we work and the choices we make. Parents peered into the data looking for themselves, but clear distinctions were hard to find. So far, the unpublished study has offered us only two kinds of children: those raised at home by their mothers (about 1 in 4 children) and everyone else. Which begs the question that the researchers didn't even pretend to answer: Why would kids who are cared for by anyone other than Mom develop disruptive behaviors, and what should...