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...asks "whether the natural world has any value in and of itself, divorced from any utility to the human species." It may be argued that to divide humanity from the rest of the natural world is antithetical to the cause of environmentalism, which seeks to include humans in its calculus, as a part and parcel of the complex processes that drive natural systems. But apart from the emotional "tree-huggers" and "rainbow children" whose goal is caricatured as a return to some form of noble savagery, there appears to be no viable intellectual remedy to the schism that divides conscious...
...tragic martyr, a victim of scandal. It is argued that she may be trapped in her marriage, that she sticks around out of duty to the country. Unfortunately, according to most sources, Bill has been consistently straying since their law school days. A more likely explanation for her current calculus, and her calculus all along, may be that she is simply unwilling to give up the fruits of her association with her husband. After all, the White House is a nice place to live...
...There was a time in the middle of class when the professor stopped his lecture and asked how many of us had seen multivariable calculus before," Chen says. "About half of us raised our hands, and this surprised me because it seemed from the reaction of the professor that he assumed we all knew...
Chen says he's "willing to give [math] another shot," and is taking Mathematics 21b, "Linear Algebra and Differential Calculus," this semester, while classmate Eiichi A. Miyasaka '02 says he still hopes to concentrate in mathematics...
...result, members of the Math Club have take en it upon themselves to design suggestedcurriculums for Math 22 and Mathematics 55,"Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra...