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Engaged With The World

Although the United States may go broke importing Chinese goods, our appetite for Chinese ideas does not extend much beyond acupuncture and Tai Chi. That’s unfortunate, says Associate Professor of Philosophy Steve Angle, because the rich tradition of Confucian philosophy has a lot to say about how …
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Culinary Creativity

BY CLARA SILVERSTEIN ’82 Alternately wielding a knife, a spoon, and a pair of stainless steel tongs, Michael Leviton ’88 spends most of his workdays in perpetual motion. As chef and owner of Lumiere restaurant in the B…
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Rainforest Classroom

NORA CONNER ’07 KNEW that “Tropical Ecology” would be wildly different from any other class she’d taken at Wesleyan. Still, she hadn’t expected to wake up and find a tarantula the size of her hand above her bed. “An eve…
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