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International evolution. First Harvard grew from a local to a national college, and now it is becoming international, Bok said. "We have to think more about recruitment of students all over the world," Bok said, also citing a need for continued emphasis on foreign cultures in the undergraduate curriculum.
Not so British Science Writer Dougal Dixon. A student of both geology and paleontology, Dixon has taken a careful look at the question and come up with more serious predictions, based on genetics and the course of evolution to date. The creatures that populate Dixon's futurist world in...
Dixon assumes the continents will continue to drift, eventually creating a world that will be far different from today's. Africa, Eurasia, Australia and North America will come together to form a giant continent with new climates and ecosystems; South America will become a huge island. Once man has...
Self-deprecation is often a pre-emptive strike to steal a detractor's thunder. At times, the reader half hopes that Janet Malcolm will tell Green that he is too hard on himself, that he really is an intelligent, sympathetic man who is defending the faith in an age...
Over the past two decades, he has seen considerable evolution in the subjects and styles of student writing. About ten years ago, for example, during the height of student political activism, Engel says students were much more "consciously literary" than they are now, producing more imitative work. "I had a...