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Instead, the best measures Harvard could take to ensure that TFs can teach is to evaluate them before they are hired and to provide them with better training before they have their first class. At a minimum, candidates who are not native English speakers should be required to posess sufficient proficiency in spoken English to communicate effectively with a room full of anxious undergraduates. At the best university in the world, it is simply unacceptable that some TFs are put into the classroom with only rudimentary English communication skills...
...Harvard, the fame of the professors can sometimes obscure the poor teaching that goes on in section. But discussion sections can provide students’ most important academic experiences. Providing minimum standards, giving TFs the tools to become better teachers and bringing in more experienced instructors from outside Harvard would improve the quality of both teaching and learning in the College...
...some of the most critical points in the system, surprisingly little has changed. The flying public is particularly eager to for an upgrade in airport security workers, the folks still failing to spot knives and guns in carry-on bags. "Millions of Americans fly, and we protect them with minimum-wage rent-a-cops," says Association of Flight Attendants spokesman Jeff Zack, who argues that airport security workers should be federal employees. Congress continues to bicker over whether such workers should be government workers or instead be employed as private contractors subject to strict federal supervision. The Senate unanimously called...
...fact, says Harvard's Matthew Meselson, a Nobel-prizewinning biologist who did an in-depth study of an anthrax accident at a Soviet bioweapons plant in Sverdlovsk in 1979, "there is no theoretical or experimental basis to believe in any sort of minimum threshold." A dozen or even fewer spores could be sufficient to kill, he suspects, under the right circumstances...
Chambers is trying to look in a different direction, largely because his options are limited; the additional five years the union was willing to add to his age put him at 61 and a few months. The minimum for retirement is 62. His first vocation was photography. Being out of work has resurrected his dream of returning to that first love. "I would like to take a refresher course now, while I still have my union health benefits," he says. His positive outlook is dimmed by the realities of basic survival. "I received financial assistance from the Red Cross...