Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Third World, and farmers have been displaced by the transformation of family agriculture into corporate agribusiness. As workers everywhere have moved off somewhere else, looking for the headwaters of the global-money flows, oversize cities have exploded. Landless Philippine farmers pack into Manila, jobless Moroccans sneak into France, Central Americans pile across the U.S. border...
...evidence consists of tiny fossilized ankle and foot bones uncovered in central China beginning in 1995. Painstakingly analyzing their find under a microscope, Daniel Gebo of Northern Illinois University and his colleagues identified features common to both anthropoids and their more primitive forebears. "There's always been a big hole between the earliest fossil anthropoids and prosimians," says Gebo. "The fossils were either true anthropoid or true prosimian; we've never found anything in between until...
...next stage of Project ADAPT begins. The system should not be given responsibility for handling human resources information without a general consensus among the faculties that they are comfortable with the project and are ready to use the new software. A new commitment on the part of the central administration to hearing and addressing the concerns of the faculties will be necessary to restore faith in the system that was supposed to make everything easier...
...driving itself is harder work. The nighttime shuttle covers most of central Cambridge--from Central Square to the Somerville line to Porter Square to Mount Auburn Hospital...
...Before, people lived like apes--everybody fed himself," Wrangham said. "[With] cooking, it became worthwhile to bring food in large quantities to a central location, and the concepts of ownership and theft came into existence...