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...committee's report states that "data from the first year of the new method shows a sizable increase in the number of requested and successful transfers...
...book The University: An Owner'sManual, Geyser University Professor ofEconomics Henry Rosovsky states that the Coreensures that "all [students] learn the ways ofthinking or method of analysis associated withthese comprehensive and significant modes ofinquiry...
...despite the emphasis on method over matter,the Core Committee is unlikely "to extend thedoctrine of `free substitutability' to areasbeyond Science A and B," according to Dean ofUndergraduate Education Lawrence Buell, who sitson the committee with nine other faculty members...
...traditional religion, however, and a superstitious pagan often lurks underneath. Many Russians light candles in church nowadays the way they formerly paid their Communist Party dues -- as a kind of insurance, just in case. Belief in miracles remains strong in a nation once fervently dedicated to the scientific method. How else to explain the extraordinary following of psychic healers like Anatoli Kashpirovsky and Alan Chumak, who held audiences spellbound with their televised seances a few years ago? Even sophisticated Muscovites rushed to buy supposedly energized issues of newspapers and placed jars of water by their TV screens to absorb...
About 40% to 45% of the estimated 500 million pounds of perc produced annually is used by cleaners. In an effort to reduce exposure to perc, the Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with trade groups, has launched a four-week test of a new cleaning method that eschews all chemical solvent and depends instead on biodegradable soaps along with heat, steam and pressing. The experiment uses clothing volunteered by government employees in Washington and New York City. First up was EPA chief William Reilly, who turned over his regulation blue suit...