Word: processing
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...articles I recalled what a professor had argued or the slide of a particular building--in short, what I had learned, not just to be regurgitated on a test or in an essay, but what I had really absorbed in the class. In that I am in the process of stockpiling for that first, more artificial measure of comprehension, it jarred me a bit to see real learning at work, two years after the fact...
After a three week layoff that included winter vacation, the Harvard women's hockey team returned to action rested and somewhat rusty but turned around its recent woes and watched a milestone in the process...
...Weyn (Big Bone) Hotel, a few minutes' drive away. The 245 M.P.s shuffled in, got as comfortable as they could in the white plastic chairs and began discussing the appointment of ministers. A problem arose. Ministers had been sworn in before the parliament had approved them. The process would have to begin again. "We are learning by doing things," says Galaydh, a Harvard fellow who earned his Ph.D. and taught public administration at Syracuse University. "Nothing I taught prepared me for starting a state from zero...
Your goal is to move toward an all-weather portfolio that seeks the higher returns that stocks historically deliver but also includes enough bonds and cash to cover any financial obligations you expect over the next few years--for example, college tuition. Part of this process is ratcheting down your investment expectations. Having come through five consecutive years of stocks gaining more than 20%, we can now expect something closer to the 11% a year that stocks have averaged since 1926. So bonds and cash won't hurt as much as you think...
...first cloned mammal. A needle is jabbed through an egg's protective layer and used to remove the egg's nucleus, containing most of a cell's genetic material. A second needle is used to inject a whole cell under the egg's outer layer. To complete the process, an electrical current fuses the new cell to the egg. The embryo starts to divide until, within days, the mass of cells grows to about 100 and is big enough to be implanted in the surrogate mother's uterus...