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Hsieh studies the effects of skin surfaces on locomotion. She has used the collection to study a species of lizard that can that run on water. Now, she is looking at a “very acrobatic, energetic” fish from Guam that spends 90 percent of its life out of the water...
...those crazy n---ers up to now?” Of course I’d heard racial slurs before, but the offhanded, public way in which it was said, and the way in which the same man smiled and nodded politely at me seconds later, as though my skin color and mere presence in the area connected me to his racism, shocked me more than the protest itself...
...Cruelties, / They execute on every slight offence . . . / Your heart wou'd bleed for 'em." In 1703 the Boston Puritan Samuel Sewall wrote against slavery in "The Selling of Joseph", and as early as 1667 his predecessor, Michael Wigglesworth, had contended that God was color-blind: "Although Affliction tan the Skin, / Such saints are Beautiful within...
...outrage with which earth is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man. The nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own, and having pow'r T' inforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. . . . And worse than all, and most to be deplored As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts...
...came as a big relief early last week when NASA investigators determined that, yes, it was clearly a loose chunk of insulating foam that had damaged the shuttle Columbia's skin and led to its crack-up in the skies over Texas. Of course, they acknowledged, it was also possible that the ship actually started breaking up over California, and it might not have been foam that killed it, but a meteor. Or turbulence. Or an explosion in the wheel well. In fact, it began to seem that the only thing NASA could say with certainty was that nothing seemed...