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This morning I had to climb up on the roof to release a squirrel caught in our trap. I have...

Oh sure, Sir Isaac Newton wrote the Principia and Opticks and all, and he too was Lucasian Chair of Mathematics...

Friday, May 11, 2007 ACE, the American Council on Education, is a remarkable organization. Their mission, to speak for and...

That’s what a grad student next to me said when he saw the most recent publisher book fair in progress...

The end is near: It’s time to grade the stacks of final papers, estimate student participation grades, tabulate everything and...

Although much that comes across the academic administrative desk shines with the bright light of pride and promotion -- expensively...

My mother and I were sitting in a booth in a J.C. Penney’s lunchroom, sometime in the late ‘60s or...