Word: particularity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...meantime, I began schmoozing with the UMass-Amherst contingent. Each time I’d end up talking to one guy in particular, he’d start dishing dirt about the last guy he’d just seen me talking to, just to keep me informed you understand...
...prospective pre-frosh, I would like your take on the whole pre-frosh weekend experience thing. In particular, how easy or difficult is it to maintain a social life during all of the pre-frosh activities? Also, how many warm fuzzies do I need in order to win the ice cream social...
Then consider ethics. More and more leaders of science and religion now pose this question: Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity and thus the creation? Look more closely at nature, they say; every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived for thousands to millions of years. It is part of the world--part of Eden if you prefer--in which our own species arose...
...particular I would have loved to see alive was a short-necked giraffe relative that had huge "antlers," some with a span across the horns of close to 8 ft. (almost 3 m). There were buffalo-size antelopes with massive curving horns, carnivores that must have looked like saber-toothed lions, two distinct species of hippo and at least two types of elephant, one of which had tusks that protruded downward from the lower jaw. We may never know the full extent of this incredible mammalian diversity, but there were probably more than twice as many species a million years...
Luncheon workshops were also offered. The workshops enabled conference participants to discuss particular fields of science...