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...Center for the Study of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University, said he noticed that American universities in general—such as MIT, Yale, and Harvard—seemed to have a larger presence at Davos than usual. He attributed this phenomenon to an overall shift of attentions toward the international community...
...finches return to normal when conditions return to normal. Sounds like epigenetics and not Darwinian evolution. Darwin skeptics tend to agree that organisms can adapt (or evolve) within certain boundaries, but such organisms do not evolve into new species. Bygren's study of epigenetics would seem to explain this phenomenon better and more simply than Darwinian evolution...
...earthquake, one of Baptiste’s Haitian-American patients has been unable to work, having fallen into depression as a result of the loss of her son in the devastation. Baptiste said the individual will now be unable to support her family in Haiti—a widespread phenomenon threatening the country’s economy, which is largely dependent on remittances from Haitians abroad...
Normally, I’d be surprised by this type of comeback, but for Harvard hockey, seasonal ups and downs are expected. This trend of extended losing streaks followed by a late-season resurgence has become an oddly common phenomenon...
...fact, the continued existence of skinny jeans in the closet of the American male consumer is one of the biggest issues plaguing society today. Unfortunately, the anthropologists have yet to come up with an explanation for this phenomenon, and there is currently no “Social Analysis” core offering devoted to the subject (although you never know with “GenEd”). Regardless, the question still remains: why are these god-forsaken leggings so popular among members of the male gender, even among the bigger specimens...