Word: developing
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Somerville says the Festival choir is the place for those singers who want less of a time commitment, or who need to develop the skills necessary for Sunday choir. This year, he says, one first-year asked to be in the Festival choir only so she would have a chance to try out many activities before committing so much time to just...
...much more abstract level than today's reformers. Math educators took up the cause, but over time, most mathematicians and parents became unhappy with the results. What had gone wrong? Preoccupied with "understanding," the "New Math" reformers had neglected computational skills. Mathematical understanding, it turned out, did not develop well without sufficient computational practice. Understanding and skills grow best in tandem, each supporting the other. In most areas of human endeavor, mastery cannot be attained without technique. Why should mathematics be different...
...Garden Street, they are hardly strangers at the House. The family dines at the Eliot House dining hall at least once a week and Pertile even participates in the Eliot Crew team. Pertile is already well-connected with the Eliot House residents and we expect and welcome Bensted to develop similar friendships with the students...
...blessing than a curse that the Conleys do not have an established House community to waltz into--one of their primary goals is to create a stronger sense of community at Kirkland House. The Conleys also intend to concentrate their efforts on intellectual, ethnic, and cultural missions to develop an "ethic of living" among their students. These are both admirable goals for the House and we hope that the Conleys are successful in their aspirations...
...antibiotic in 35 years. With microbes becoming ever more resistant to antibiotics--including the drug of last resort, vancomycin--the FDA's nod comes just in time: Zyvox is approved for staph bacteria, pneumonia and other serious infections. Now if only docs won't overprescribe it, lest the bugs develop resistance to it as well...