Word: rethinking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could it be that the permutations of life on earth are governed not by comets or death stars but by something more old-fashioned--like the fates? Although Shoemaker and Walter Alvarez do not consider themselves superstitious, they recently found reason to rethink their beliefs. During a visit to Berkeley, Shoemaker had roundly blasted the Nemesis idea, so Alvarez took him to a Chinese restaurant for a further discussion of Muller's model. After dinner, Alvarez cracked open his fortune cookie, pulled out the paper strip, glanced at it and, suppressing a laugh, handed it to Shoemaker. It read...
...words in the genetic scripture: in the familiar Paramecium, a single-celled protozoan, and in a bacterium called Mycoplasma capricolum, the DNA patterns responsible for protein construction exhibit a surprising difference. Not only does the discovery undermine the "universality" of the genetic code, but it may cause scientists to rethink certain theories about evolution...
...Finally, in a press release on March 7, ADL president, John F. Magee, announced that "not once have city officials expressed concern to us about the safety of the laboratory." If two years of meetings, special committees, court orders, investigations, and legislation are not "concern," then ADL had better rethink its pompous self-styled role as "Protection for the Intellectual Environment" of Cambridge...
...This is a serious rent control issue," said City Councilor David Sullivan, adding, "Harvard needs to rethink the whole issue before anything happens...
...using the influence it wields from its stock in corporations which do business in that nation. While we cannot take the University's word at face value and while we recognize that Harvard has taken only small steps to institute reform, we believe the time has come to rethink the value of complete, blind divestiture...