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...Well, it’s no secret that science education is pretty poor in the United States. There’s a general understanding that basic science in many other nations is far superior, and I think that’s true, so far as survey data indicate. For several years I used to ask my [Science] B-16 class once a year why we have seasons…but it’s interesting, if you ask a Harvard class of undergraduates, 40-60% won’t know. We’re a pretty illiterate society, probably always...
Sociologists adopt a basic model of religious conversion that aligns fairly closely with Maskiell’s story: experiencing tension or stress, encountering a religion at a turning point and, once converted, reconstructing perception of one’s experience according to the adopted world view. But for most converts at Harvard, the path was slightly less dramatic...
...confident there is no special graft, nothing to do with Taiwan,” Vogel said. “[Akiyama] was strictly somebody who was promoting basic research. All Kelly was doing was to allow him to do that research...
...discovers that Alfredo Garcia has impregnated his daughter, and he wants Garcia’s head. The dirty job falls to the character Del Toro will play. “It becomes a question of conscience, not just action,” Silva says. “The basic plot is like a football game, only with someone’s head instead of a football...
...Breaking the downward cycle requires a restatement of the basic reciprocal commitments - renouncing violence and ending the occupation. Israel believes the past 18 months have proved that Arafat never renounced violence, and they're unlikely ever to trust him again. But the Palestinians believe that Sharon has never had any intention of ending the occupation, which would involve negotiating a withdrawal to something close to Israel's pre-1967 borders - positions he's always fiercely opposed...