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...modern world, "demystified" and bereft of great books, knowledge and education (even in a moral sense) can only depend on the method of constant criticism and revision (a method, incidentally, to which Aristotle contributed the beginnings of analytic logic). --David Meskill '88, Second-year graduate student in the Department of History
...good for practicing the way you study cases, analyze cases and participate in class," says Brigitte G. Godi, a first-year student. "Not everyone is familiar with the case method, and [the Foundations program] is a good way to get your feet...
...married man, she made every letter count. Today, the art of letter writing has been reduced to the dregs of sub-standard English found in e-mail. Even grade A Harvard scribes tend to regress on the Internet, thanks to the College's most tried and true teaching method: Pavlovian conditioning...
...lower bone mass, a dangerous condition for older people. Moreover, because lab animals do not have the life-span of humans, all this remains highly speculative. Dr. Anna McCormick, chief of the biology section at the National Institute on Aging, cautions that cutting calories may never be an effective method of retarding age in humans. But, she says, "there may be a way to find a hormone or a drug that would have the same effect...
More Americans die from this disease each year than from any other condition, prompting physicians to explore a host of ways to keep hearts healthy. For patients whose only recourse is a heart transplant, one bold method, pioneered by a Brazilian surgeon, involves increasing the efficiency of the heart by cutting away a portion of the muscle of the left ventricle, the chamber from which blood is pumped to the rest of the body. Surgeons at several facilities in the U.S. have begun using the technique in trials and hope to improve on its current 40% death rate...