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"Texts on art rarely explain what they profess to explain; they simply simulate the explainability of their theories."
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"This First Look presents findings from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) spring 2007 data collection, which included four components: Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2006; Graduation Rates, 2000 & 2003 Cohorts; and
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"Parini's students these last two weeks have not had much of a choice but to listen to the Middlebury professor. Their attendance in the two sessions, the second of which was Tuesday, was mandatory as part of a "court diversion" program they entered
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"The ARISE report addresses two issues central to the vitality of America's research enterprise: 1) the support of early-career investigators; and 2) the encouragement of high-risk, high-reward research."
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"The researchers report that a bow-tie nanostructure of gold - measuring around 20 nm across - can enhance the intensity of femtosecond laser light pulses by two orders of magnitude."
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"We can have a lot of purple states, and a general booze track where wine and beer drinkers raise their glasses to one another in comity. The cost of that on both sides is putting aside much of the culture war as trivial and needlessly divisive"
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"Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and, such as sleep o'nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much, such men are dangerous." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar Act I, scene ii.
1) "Inert intelligence is the paradigm of institutional racism," Boalt Hall, UC/Berkeley, 1998.
1) Select the Profoundly Gifted by standardized test scores! Gratis satisfy their every care, including food. Suspend professional management as they pursue their own sick interests. What does that obtain? (Google)
Funding the young, the clever, and the risk non-aversive violates every parameter of PERT determinism. Process has precedence over product. Discovery is insubordination. "I want my staff packed with fat, bald-headed guys who aren't too bright and like to sleep a lot."
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz4.pdf
Somebody should look.