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...significance from a lecture. Yet, there is an insistence that professors be pedagogues who reveal the world and from whom knowledge flows. Even the best lecturers are useless when they merely perform lengthy derivations on the blackboard that you will just have to read at home anyway. Less spectacular would be showing you a few examples or discussing the general approach. Everyone knows that lectures are a farce, so professors don't worry when they are unprepared or only lecture on material weeks after assigning homework...
Quinn's half a dozen soldiers are playing war games with their car and their cards, part of an annual exercise that once was the spectacular, costly and sometimes dangerous pride of the U.S. armed forces. The maneuvers, part of the "Reforger" exercise by which the Pentagon annually tests its ability to deploy its forces in case of a Soviet attack, no longer produce the vast, make-believe tank battles that previously raged across the fields and the flowerbeds of resentful German farmers...
...obviously a newcomer to the game. My most spectacular response was "My brother can bench press 275 pounds...
...continued its noisy return from a 25-year dormancy. The 10,194-ft. mountain, 115 miles southwest of Anchorage, had begun spewing ash last month, which disrupted mail deliveries and passenger air traffic in the heavily traveled corridor to Asia. But the latest series of eruptions were even more spectacular. A plume of volcanic ash rose 40,000 ft. high, and lightning caused brilliant yellow and red flashes that illuminated the volcano against the night sky and revealed the area's coastline. Pilots reported seeing lava on the volcano's northwestern slope, although scientists were unable to confirm the sightings...
...From the spectacular mountain setting of McMurdo Station, Lemonick flew 800 miles to the South Pole, a featureless expanse of white that stretches to the horizon. "We arrived at 2 a.m. on a brilliantly sunny night," he recalls. "They were having a heat wave -- ten below zero, the record high for the year." Lemonick was relieved to return to the relatively mild climes of McMurdo Station, where the temperatures hovered in the 30s. He might have enjoyed McMurdo even more had he known what was waiting for him back in New York City: a cold snap, with temperatures dipping into...