Word: mereness
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...Botolph and the Tavern are both seen as “artistic” clubs. They are considered more intellectual, and their purpose is to reach into those realms beyond the mere conviviality of the clubs down the street. Much like the Tavern, the “St. B” brings together some of the city’s leading personalities in the fields of academia, business, journalism and the arts. The bonhomie of the St. B is legendary. “It is like the Signet and the Faculty Club,” says former Dean of Students...
...cites the NLRB's own 1972 edict, which held that students who assist a university in furthering its own goals were mere students under labor laws...
These activities are not mere spasms of enthusiasm, but neither do they seem to be enough to make great numbers of people take seriously something like the worst wave of extinctions since the dinosaurs died. People take themselves seriously; with the relentlessness of health news, there probably has never been a time when one was more aware of oneself as a natural organism. Yet concern for self does not expand sufficiently to embrace concern for the species, and definitely not for all species, to which one is connected by common evolution. We dabble in biotechnology as crude approximations of nature...
...working on the eastern shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana, searching for the fossilized remains of our early ancestors. We did not always find what we wanted, but every day there was much more to discover than the traces of our own predecessors. The fossils, some quite complete, others mere fragments, spoke of another world in which the ancestors of many of today's African mammals roamed the rich grasslands and forest fringes between 1.5 million and 2 million years ago. The environment was not too different from the wetter grasslands of Africa today, but it was full of amazing...
...access to a service with legal uses for fear that it will be used illegally. Furthermore, it is unclear whether universities should bear legal responsibility for the actions of students. The network policy of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences already prohibits the duplication of others' intellectual property; the mere act of providing a student with an Ethernet connection would hardly make the University complicit in violations of its own policy...