Word: embeddedness
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In 1886, on the occasion of Harvard's 250th anniversary, Charles William Eliot, the University's greatest president, painted an optimistic picture of its future. "Universities are among the most permanent of human institutions," Eliot said. "They outlast particular forms of government, and even the legal and industrial institutions in...
If one were forced to pick the best single picture De Kooning ever painted, it would probably have to be Excavation, 1950: that tangled, not-quite monochrome, dirty-cream image of -- what? Bodies is the short answer: every one of the countless forms that seem embedded in the paint, jostling...
Students simply wanted public recognition ofthe department's status at Harvard, Hall says."Our insistence in April of 1969 on the change oflabel did not constitute an addition of functions.Rather, they were embedded in what the Rosovskycommittee had already proposed."
Above all, he is a relentless hunter of disease genes. Finding a gene embedded in long, nearly featureless spirals of DNA, he likes to observe, is harder than locating the proverbial needle in a haystack. "At least a needle looks different from a haystack," he says, "but a gene is...
Gallagher's view, though defending the uniqueness of each sex, leaves little room for change. The fact is, many stereotypes are embedded in our society; often, the only way to eradicate them is to eliminate gender from the social picture. If we believe that women and men exist in completely...