<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/final/magazine/winter-2007/putting-liberal-arts-equation.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Putting Liberal Arts in the Equation</title><excerpt>F=Ma: Force equals mass times acceleration. This is the one formula I remember clearly from my only college science course, “Introduction to Scientific Thought.” I enrolled in the class my freshman year because I really didn’t want to take a “science” class. Arithmetic and numbers made math and science courses difficult. To graduate high school I had to balance a checkbook; there were four copies of the exam — I passed on the fifth try. I pursued a degree in philosophy.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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