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...PROFESSOR It’s Monday afternoon and jazz fusion is blaring as students amble into a Science Center lecture hall to attend back to Psychology. 1. They settle towards the front of the the room. A poster from an old science fiction movie is projected on the left side of the lecture hall. On the right, the students see a schedule for the day’s lecture. Suddenly, Porky Pig interrupts the music: “That’s allllllll folks!” Gilbert takes the stage. “There are a lot of things...
Following in the footsteps of universities including Harvard, Yale University will create a School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Yale President Richard C. Levin announced Monday. This announcement aims to reunite the departments into a cohesive SEAS, led by Dean of Engineering T. Kyle Vanderlick, who joined Yale at the beginning of the calendar year as the chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering. “Engineering is more than a collection of individual departments,” Vanderlick said. She compared specialization in engineering to chosing a particular field of study in medical school...
...Both Scott Bloch and Rep. James Oberstar, the Minnesota Democrat who chairs the House Transportation Committee, are highly critical of the way the FAA has been overseeing the nation's airlines. Asked Monday night if the nation's air travelers have endured the worst in the latest round of groundings, Oberstar snapped: "We'll be through the worst of it when they take their customer service initiative directive and tear it up, shred it, and establish a new mind-set that is aviation safety-compliant. What they're doing now is going through the mechanics of what they should have...
...violence north and west of Baghdad, is unlikely to be heeded by Maliki. Still, it underscored the political weight of Sadr's voice. Sadr's Mahdi Army has effectively stopped an advance by U.S. and Iraqi forces into its strongholds in Baghdad and Basra after weeks of fighting. On Monday Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, the commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, said American troops operating at the edge of Sadr City in support of Iraqi troops would not press deeper into the area. That means any decisive push into the heart of the Mahdi Army stronghold in east Baghdad would...
...shop owner in the oldest township, Mbare, said he could not risk opening his store in the morning. "We didn't know what was going to happen because there was tension. We were afraid to open the shop because people usually loot." In Warren Park on Monday night, an 85-seater passenger coach had been burnt by protestors, prompting a heavy police presence. Witnesses said they heard gunshots at the scene during the night but were too afraid to go out. And in Glen View 1 township, supporters of the ruling Zanu-PF party and the MDC clashed after...