Word: programing
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Educational emphasis is focused on the sciences. Despite the lack of good lab facilities and modern research tools, the Soviet science student is often more competent than his Western counterpart because he specializes in only one area. The rigidity of this educational program partially compensates for the inferior technology and materials available. The cost is creativity. A college education is five years in duration, but highly structured. Electives are almost unknown, as is the Western idea of liberal arts...
...when Banuri was accepted to a program at Williams College that teaches the economics of development to members of Third World governments, he came to America. The program whetted his appetite but left him eager to learn more. Accepted on scholarship to become a graduate student of economics at Harvard, Banuri began to round out his knowledge of the subject. "I always wanted to know where this all comes from. I didn't understand all of society. There was no overall view...
Thus began the program of physical activity which Howe credits with helping him overcome his mental depression, and with it, his disease. He is quick to deny, that his personal experience can be reapplied to other cancer patients. But in his own case, Howe feels that sports offered him some tangible goals towards which to strive, and that his setting of those goals helped him realize he had control over his own life. "Once I decided on a goal, the pain became incidental," Howe says, drawing an analogy between sports and his life. His pursuit of achievement, Howe believes, helped...
...belief that human limitations are elastic, and that people can usually accomplish more than they think. In January, 1977, when he decided he could no longer go on with chemotherapy, "there was the implication from my doctors that I might die" without treatment, he says. But his program of running, boxing, squash playing and swimming built up his physical strength so that he was able to undergo more chemotherapy and eventually drive his disease into remission...
...Wellesley has a developing program which is getting stronger every year," Cunningham said after the match. The Wellesley squad is currently ranked eighth in the nation...