Word: specialize
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...addition, Kusnan said the organization will focus on commemorating the first anniversary of the Beijing killings with a special concert featuring various popular musicians...
Dershowitz Draws--The special "thinking" course taught by Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, Geology Professor Stephen J. Gould and Philosphy Professor Robert Nozick was expected to be popular among students. Students, after all, are easily wowed by big-name professors. Perhaps most would not expect a group of distinguished adults to be so easily impressed, but that's exactly what happened at a special lunch Friday with Harvard's Institute of Politics fellows and a handful of undergraduates. The undergraduates offered a few course suggestions for the fellows to audit, but all the fellows could talk about was hearing Dershowitz...
...addition to being remote and attenuated, the injury to academic freedom claimed by the petitioner is also speculative. As the EEOC points out, confidentiality is not the norm in all peer review systems... Moreover, some disclosure of peer evaluations would take place even if petitioner's `special necessity' tests were adopted. Thus, the `chilling effect' petitioner fears is at most only incrementally worsened by the absence of a privilege. Finally, we are not so ready as petitioner seems to be to assume the worst about those in the academic community. Although it is possible that some evaluators may become less...
...often characterizes the gun debate on both sides. For one thing, Brady's description hardly does justice to a complex association that is partly a lobby, partly a sporting group and largely a gathering of the faithful. It also won't do because the N.R.A. is not just another special-interest group. It is the pivotal player in the evolving national concern about guns. What the N.R.A. is, and what it becomes, will do much to determine the outcome of that debate...
Last week the halo slipped. According to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, oat bran has no special power to reduce cholesterol levels. In fact, it works no better than low-fiber grains and causes more bloating and diarrhea than some. In a study performed at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Dr. Frank Sacks and colleagues randomly switched 20 healthy men and women between two six-week diets: one contained 100 grams of oat bran daily, the other 100 grams of low-fiber wheat. Cholesterol levels dropped an average 7.5% -- no matter the diet...