Word: acceptibility
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...here,” Bryant says, “and then college students.” Youth makes his job interesting because “it’s a challenge to try to connect with people of a different generation, to help the search and not just accept the accepted philosophy...
...20th century, there has been a tip for Harvard-Radcliffe sons or daughters.” Lewis uses “tip” (as in “of the scale”) to describe the slight bias toward legacies; ceteris paribus, the committee will tend to accept the legacy over the non-legacy. An interesting side-note: the long-standing “tip” has only applied to women since 1975, as Radcliffe did not observe the practice before the admissions offices merged...
Though the oceans' woes can seem overwhelming, solutions are emerging and attitudes are changing. Most people have shed the fantasy that the sea can inexhaustibly provide food, dilute endless pollution and accept unlimited trash. In 1996 the U.S. passed the Sustainable Fisheries Act, which mandates rules against overfishing--a recognition that protecting sea life is good business. Some fish, such as striped bass and redfish, are recovering because of catch limits. Alaskan, Falkland, Australian and New Zealand longline boats are taking care not to kill albatrosses. Turtles are being saved by trapdoors in shrimp nets...
...ecology" and featured in a 1970 Time cover story, Brooklyn-born biologist Barry Commoner was one of the first scientists to worry about a deteriorating environment; he established a pioneering ecological center at Washington University in St. Louis in 1966. A maverick in his science--he didn't initially accept DNA as heredity's master molecule--and a polemical writer (Science and Survival, The Closing Circle), he won 200,000 votes in the 1980 presidential race on the eco-based Citizens' Party ticket. At 82, he remains an active warrior for the environment...
...child prodigy from Massachusetts, Lovins went to Harvard to study physics but decided he was beyond his professors. So he became "a 17th century thing--a general experimentalist," a fuzzy notion that, he says, Harvard found hard to accept. He transferred to Oxford, where he studied everything from climatology to biophysics, but when he wanted to write a thesis on energy-resource strategy, he was told to pick "a real subject." In frustration, he quit with a master's degree and began consulting, lecturing and writing...