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...would be disingenuous to say that my students didn't feel pressure to help me get tenure," Verdine says. "But it created a real esprit de corps in the lab during that year. Students know there is pressure on their professor that translates to them...
Students also say chemistry lab work's all-or-nothing pace puts pressure on grad students to produce. When students get close to a break-through, they feel extra pressure to stay the extra hours or the extra nights or weekends to get that breakthrough...
...agreement reached by Yasser Arafat and former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres late Wednesday to implement the stillborn Sharm el Sheik agreement brokered three weeks ago by President Clinton. And that may have been its precise intention: The Islamic Jihad organization, which has rejected the peace process from the get-go, claimed responsibility for the blast. Its fellow Islamist organization Hamas, which has also used terrorist bombings as a weapon against the peace process, also vowed Thursday to ignore the latest cease-fire...
...whatever initial allure GoreNet may have promised was undermined by the predictability of its ultimate purpose: Raising individual contributions for the Gore/Lieberman campaign. Sure, money is one way to get involved. But it's not the only...
...with far more regularity and in far greater numbers than young folks. And nobody seems to know why. I'd venture a guess: When balding and/or graying politicians continually make what appears to be an active decision to cut young people out of the political process, the impetus to get involved is sharply diminished. Of course, in defense of politicians - gasp! - there's a classic chicken-and-egg conundrum here: Do young voters ignore politicians because politicians ignore them, or do politicians keep their distance from young voters because they've proven themselves an uninterested voting bloc whose concerns...