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...larger effects of Darwin's writing: "[T]he most important way in which Darwin altered his era was by getting people who did do science to ask a new kind of question. Some scientific revolutions have surprisingly small ideological aftershocks; Michael Faraday's discovery that electricity and magnetism are the same thing was as large a discovery as any in the history of science, but it had a paltry aftereffect...For a new scientific theory to become a model in its time, vastly influential outside its immediate claims, it has to release thinking people from a bond that they...
...time, he had this most angelic face, and we all just loved his voice,” says Kenneth M. Kastleman ’66, who sang with Craig. “He was certainly the most handsome of us. Apologies to the rest of the Kroks of that era...
...traveled from Chipinge, around 300 miles east of Harare, to see the ceremony. "This is what we've been waiting for," she said. "With Tsvangirai in government ... [this] is where the future of the country lies." Freeman Matake of Masvingo added, "This is the dawn of a new era in Zimbabwe." A police officer, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, agreed. "This man seems to be the answer to our problems. His determination is a source of hope." (See pictures from the tense walk-up to Zimbabwe's elections...
...Herculean proportions of Jose Canseco or Barry Bonds, the sheer prevalence of steroid use in Major League Baseball that A-Rod and others have described makes A-Rod’s drug use more predictable than shocking. His tale is simply one more on a sordid list from an era inexorably tainted by the stain of performance-enhancing drugs...
Major League Baseball must not forget this blow to the integrity of the game—which is especially painful because A-Rod was previously considered by many to be the savior of the steroid era in baseball—but move forward with better testing and prevention...