Word: useful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nguyen Ngoc Huy, research associate on Southeast Asian affairs at the Law School, also suggested that Carter pressure Vietnam not to use starvation as a weapon in its war against Cambodian rebels...
...dangers of sociobiology. This is reminiscent of nothing so much as the recent case of the New England seer who foretold the burning of a factory and then went and set the fire. This seems a different category of prophecy than that people usually evince pride in. The use of sociobiology by the European New Right is the direct result of and responsibility of Science for the People and others who have misrepresented this diverse and complex field. Science for the People has used every sort of distortion and misrepresentation to make what is in fact an arbitrary and manufactured...
...these individuals, the urge to feed this appetite has grown stronger than the impulse to honestly scrutinize the object of the attack to see if it is warranted. Sociobiology has a few faint and superficial resemblances to "Social Darwinism," as far as I can tell, limited to the use of the term "Darwinism." Every other aspect is profoundly different. They bear the same relationship to each other as phrenology does to neuroanatomy. Anyone of candid intellect would have, on the basis of a few moments of investigation, satisfied himself of the difference and moved on to more pressing areas...
Signed by more than a dozen residents in the Wendell, Mellon and Oxford St. area, the petition calls for "a temporary moratorium on conversion of residential structures to educational and religious uses...to provide time for the city to implement" permanent regulations on the use of institutional property...
...This case strikes me as a sensible use of the moratorium," Balcom said, adding that institutional purchases around the city may have increased with the new ordinance on the horizon...