Ishido: the way of stones articles
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Is this the last time for the Rolling Stones live? Not the way Mick carries on
HOUSTON — Mick Jagger looked ageless. Once again. Keith Richards seemed nonchalant. Doesn't he always? Ron Wood smiled and slashed with his...
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Good ol’ Ways: The history of Ways general education requirements
Stanford’s Ways of Thinking/Ways of Doing system for undergraduate breadth requirements allows students to choose from a set of nearly 2,000 approved courses to count toward their degree. Although the Ways system has been in effect for a decade now, disparities remain in the number of Ways-approved courses across departments and the categories of Ways requirements. Social Inquiry is the most widely available Ways credit, as opposed to Ethical Reasoning, which is more than five times as scarce,...
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Technology may offer ways to prevent wrong-way traffic deaths
The devastating impact often happens in darkness, on a highway, at high speed. Over 10 years, at least 650 people died and another 800 were injured in collisions involving wrong-way drivers on Texas roads, according to data from TxDOT. Across the United States, wrong-way crashes kill about 400 people every year. New technology is showing promise that drivers could soon be warned of the oncoming danger, giving them enough time to move toward safety. NBC Dallas-Fort Worth examined two emerging...