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...He’s taught courses on translation in the Roman Republic, and whatever the Core morphs into, he’ll be a central player in teaching to the larger undergraduate community on Greek and Roman history,” Thomas said...
...part of one of the first classes subject to the Core Curriculum, Slichter says now that those requirements were the least of his worries...
...Highway Watch website boasts that the program is open to "an elite core [sic] of truck drivers" who must have clean driving and employment records. In fact, their records are not vetted by the American Trucking Associations. At the Little Rock event, some came in off the street without preregistering. However, the organization is highly security conscious about other parts of its operations. It refuses to disclose the exact location of its hotline call center or the number of operators working there. "It could be infiltrated," says Dawn Apple, Highway Watch's director of training and recruitment...
...bicentennial of his re-election as President, Jefferson still intrigues Americans for another reason: his tantalizing inner complexity. The tall, soft-spoken Virginia squire who loved fine wines and whose enormous book collection became the core of the Library of Congress was no unfeeling, detached egghead but a passionate, somewhat elusive human being. When his wife Martha died in 1782, he wrapped a lock of her hair with a scrap of paper containing an excerpt from the couple's favorite novel, Laurence Sterne's comic masterpiece, Tristram Shandy, and stashed the token in his desk. Four years later, while serving...
...vessels tend to thicken and stiffen, making them less able to expel heat. Sweating, another key way of giving off heat, also tends to diminish with age and with getting out of shape. "Basically, the elderly are vulnerable to heat both because they have greater difficulty in regulating their core temperature and because increased prevalence of diseases and medicines impair the ability to dissipate heat," says Dr. Samuel Durso, associate professor of geriatrics at Johns Hopkins. "The two in combination can be deadly." (See box.) What's more, older people generally don't feel thirsty until they're already dehydrated...