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...rule, people have a minimal interest in family trees from which they themselves do not sprout. So Frazier may encounter some initial reader resistance, particularly since he was able to track his ancestors back to the 1600s on his father's side and the 1700s on his mother's. There are an awful lot of names to keep up with in the early stages of his story, and their relationships to the author ("Comfort Hoyt, my five-greats-grandfather on my father's side") can dizzy the genealogically challenged...
...sabotaged a woman's natural defenses with inappropriate medical treatments in cases of uterine infection. "Imagine consulting a cardiologist who didn't understand that the function of the heart was to pump blood?" asks the maverick scientist. "How could he treat you? That was a fundamental question in the 1600s. The same is true today for women's reproductive systems...
Commencement is a particularly Harvardian spectacle, with its share of colorful customs. The Sheriff of Middlesex County always attends--a practice that dates back to the 1600s, when University graduates and their guests sought protection from the threat of Algonquin attacks. The procession of faculty is a showcase of pomp and circumstance; professors march from University Hall to the Memorial Church steps, dressed in academic regalia and wearing the colors of their alma maters...
Orientation week is a seven-day cocktail party. It's a homework-free romp through the Yard. It's an opportunity to bond with geniuses who got 1600s on their SATs and roommates who snorkle, write award-winning poetry and splice genes in their free time. It's a long, strange trip that's completely forgotten a month later...
...proposals pending to build gravity-wave observatories in Europe and Australia, and we're hoping to put together an international network." That will take time, and some of the most important discoveries lie years in the future. But just as Galileo did with his crude telescope in the early 1600s, the first generation of gravity-wave astronomers will undoubtedly learn things right away that will dramatically enrich science's understanding of the universe...