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...initiatives with concrete information about the ways in which those initiatives will effect students; instead, students have been left sorting through empty promises of curricular renewal. The Curricular Review is motivated by a desire to improve undergraduate education; to be successful, the implementation of reforms must do more than confound our shopping period woes...
...crisp, the excitement is palpable, and there are no classes yet. You’ll be flooded with a series of didactic meetings accompanied by hilariously dated videos, placement tests, and activities fairs that confound the senses...
...latest plot seems to have validated the assumption that terrorists would be more likely to try and confound airport security measures by smuggling a bomb on board in pieces and assembling it in mid-flight. The particularly devious innovation of the London plotters was their alleged use of liquid explosives or explosive components, which are easily concealed in many of the items found in most travelers' hand luggage - perfume, hair gel, deodorant, medicines, drinks, toothpaste, lotions, and so on - and are extremely difficult to detect. Metal detectors will obviously miss them. While there have been some "puffer" explosive-detection machines...
...case can be made (a case that can confound and infuriate liberal do-gooders like myself) that by making the economy more efficient and moving money where it leads to higher profit margins and more jobs, investment banking and venture capital work are the most effective ways of serving the country. Perhaps, if approached with a system of priorities that truly places this ethos of service over short-term profits, an occasionally callous and avaricious profession can be turned to do true good...
...more than even the number hauled in by Norway, which simply ignores the moratorium. Next year Japan plans to bag 50 humpbacks, the endangered giants famous for their spectacular breaches and eerie subaqueous songs. Stanford University cetologist Stephen Palumbi says their addition to the scientific catch will confound attempts to monitor poaching through the dna testing of meat, a method that has proved remarkably effective in recent years...