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...Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology.”The course, which ran for the first time this fall and is the first of its kind at any university, was months in the making and presents biology and chemistry in the context of modern medical applications. Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ’94, one of the class’s four professors, writes in an e-mail that he hopes students will emerge from the course with an awareness of how concepts from different disciplines come together...
Fried wrote in the New York Times last week that “Alito’s detractors ignore the context and the content” of the 1985 abortion memo. The op-ed also defended a 1984 memo by Alito, in which the future high-court nominee argued that executive-branch officials who order illegal domestic wiretaps should be immune from personal liability...
...creativity research, we refer to the three Bs?for the bathtub, the bed and the bus?places where ideas have famously and suddenly emerged. When we take time off from working on a problem, we change what we're doing and our context, and that can activate different areas of our brain. If the answer wasn't in the part of the brain we were using, it might be in another. If we're lucky, in the next context we may hear or see something that relates?distantly?to the problem that we had temporarily put aside...
...Snyder also said HUDS was concerned to see lower scores in the categories of staff friendliness and appearance. “It was surprising to see that go down,” she said. “But it’s important to keep that in context. It’s still close to perfect.” Scores in those areas averaged between 4.2 and 5. Snyder said students articulated cravings for specific foods, rather than offering general suggestions. “The open comments tend to come back more related to products than overall dining...
...preparing its IPO, which is advertised as a major event for the Russian economy. Rosneft will issue dozens millions worth shares to cover its assets-with not a single dollar earmarked for the state budget. It's not privatization; it's IPO by a state-owned company. In this context, the action does look like stealing state funds on a multi-billion scale. This is just one example of many. Cabinet members or key Presidential Staff executives chairing corporation boards or serving on those boards are the order of the day in Russia. In what Western country-except...