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...Twist Of Fate," TIME'S account of James Watson and Francis Crick's discovery of the structure of DNA, was extensive and thorough [THE DNA REVOLUTION, Feb. 17]. I am studying biology in high school, and my textbook gives the impression that Watson and Crick completely deciphered the molecule in no time flat. Learning that they made mistakes at first, as everybody else does, reignited my interest in high school biology. MICHAEL YEE Huntington Beach, Calif...
...semesters, the fall covering microeconomics and the spring, macroeconomics. While students in Marglin’s course would leave the class knowing as much about neoclassical microeconomics as those taking Ec 10, they would also be exposed to current debates between economists. Marglin will even use the same textbook as Feldstein. After the fall semester, students will rejoin Feldstein and Ec 10 in the spring...
...during a meeting with his advisor at Emory, Hare remembers his advisor saying that chimpanzees couldn’t pass a cognition test as outlined above. “My dog can do that!” says Hare; his advisor flatly denied it, saying that dogs were a textbook example of an animal not sophisticated enough to follow human thought processes. Hare’s “cute little undergrad study” that he conducted in his garage using two pet dogs as subjects proved that he wasn’t barking up the wrong tree...
...such. The question is, Peace at what risk? Peace on whose terms? Peace for how long? Looked at this way, war is not only sometimes a moral option--as theologians have long argued. Sometimes it's the only moral option we have. In some ways, this war is a textbook example of that. First off, we are not initiating a war. We are not the aggressor. We are still in a long process of defense. It's hard to remember now, but this war is not a new one. It's merely the continuation of one begun...
Feldstein’s introductory course, Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics,” uses a textbook by the same name, Principles of Economics, authored by Mankiw...