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Students would be better served by a broader, simpler distribution requirement. This alternative should preserve the Core's emphasis on the social and natural sciences, literature, arts, history and mathematics. The few Core courses that do not find a place within a department should be offered as general education courses. Over the next week we will further investigate the problems with the Core and elucidate our suggestions for a future undergraduate curriculum...
...cheaper, and if you live in Northern California, you are learning that electricity can't be taken for granted. About 53% of home-heating systems in the U.S. use natural gas, which in past years has been the least expensive fuel. Gas also burns cleaner, and the furnaces are simpler to monitor than oil furnaces. Yet because parts of the U.S. (especially the Northeast) lack the infrastructure to transport natural gas, for many the main options are electricity and oil. Of the two, electricity is generally more expensive, less environmentally friendly...
...unexpected side effects of gene transfers will be hard to predict. Indeed, even conventional gene therapy, which doesn't change the basic germline, has become controversial since the death of Jesse Gelsinger in a gene-therapy trial at the University of Pennsylvania last year. Besides, scientists have much simpler ways to stave off at least some genetic diseases. Parents whose embryos have the gene for Tay-Sachs disease, for example, can test for that defect and never bring the embryo to term...
...Using the PS2 couldn't be much simpler, since it has only two buttons: On/Off/Reset and Open/Close. Unfortunately, these cannot be controlled except by getting up and walking over to the box. This can get frustrating with games where screwing up means having to start the whole session over, and also makes it easier to forget to turn the unit off. There is no auto-turnoff function - a real oversight...
JUNIOR FIX-ITS Children as young as eight are replacing parents as the modern household's repair experts. New surveys show that the technological generation gap between adults who grew up with simpler appliances and the e-generation of computer-game-literate kids has grown to the point where three out of four parents admit that they depend on their children to program new phones and stop VCR clocks from blinking...