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...exposes the reader to his own wonder with each of his personal science heroes, from Darwin to Halley. A "Careful reading," Gould suggests, gives a new lease on life to theories ridiculed or scorned by today's haughty and careless scholars. In a seeming reversal of his desire to combat the complacent and traditional nature of Darwinist thought, Gould even goes as far as to suggest we need a mythology of science...
Addressing an audience of more than 100, Dr. June E. Osborn argued that efforts to combat AIDS must be more focused on prevention and education. The most pressing problem is the lack of concern and the ignorance shown by the nation as a whole, she said...
...press liaison was created with two goals in mind: to keep in touch with the students--a goal The Crimson itself suggested last year, and to combat negative publicity from the one news source who has categorically refused to publicize the council's success--The Crimson...
...massive payback for everything the Nazis had done to Russia. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was a Soviet army captain in East Prussia in 1945, recorded: "All of us knew very well that if the girls were German, they could be raped and then shot. That was almost a combat distinction...
Irreverence for religion cannot be tolerated if New York wants to combat the moral debasement which frighteningly colors so many of its crimes. The city's problems will persist if respect cannot even be mustered for the most basic rights of its individuals...