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...irony is that protestors like this tend to hurt their cause,” Glickman said. “I think it actually helped [Mehlman...
Professors in the sciences tend to be more firmly against a move in concentration choice timing than their colleagues in the humanities because the sciences rely much more heavily on prerequisites...
...Core courses tend to obliterate all the nooks and crannies in the course catalog that students come to be interested in,” says Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Chair of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Philip A. Kuhn. “They also suck the life out of department courses because the enrollments become too small to sustain them...
...Seiler did fake her abduction, she wouldn't be the first. But false criminal reports that aren't motivated by money or revenge are rare, according to forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz, who knows of roughly 50 U.S. cases in the past 20 years. When they do happen, they tend to make headlines. In 1988, Dietz testified in the grand jury investigation of Tawana Brawley, a black woman who claimed to have been abducted and raped by a gang of white men in upstate New York. The grand jury found her claims to be untrue. Dietz coined the term factitious victimization...
...fancy packaging but also some fairly sophisticated chemistry. Combining aromatic oils with cleaning agents is not so easy to do, explains Avery Gilbert, president of Synesthetics Inc., a firm based in Montclair, N.J., that provides consultations to the fragrance industry. "The soap base has chemical properties that tend to kind of tear apart the fragrance oils and make them go flat or not smell so good after a while," he says. This may explain why mass-market products such as Procter & Gamble's Joy, even in its new Green Tea essence variety, lack the olfactory punch of the pricier items...