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Dini’s punitive sin? As reported in the New York Times, he refuses to write letters of recommendation to medical or graduate schools for students who do not accept the theory of evolution. When a premedical student of Dr. Dini’s got wind of this, he cried foul because he felt that to accept the theory of evolution would be “to deny [his] faith as a Christian...

Author: By Zachary S. Podolsky, | Title: Stephen J. Gould, Where Are You? | 2/11/2003 | See Source »

...goes without saying—or, better, it should go without saying—that no biologist should have to write a letter of recommendation for a student who denies, as Dini describes it to the Times, the “central, unifying principle of biology...

Author: By Zachary S. Podolsky, | Title: Stephen J. Gould, Where Are You? | 2/11/2003 | See Source »

...ledger: a single piece of handwritten paper folded in his breast pocket. Other would-be borrowers often pile receipts on Binbin's desk in lieu of a balance sheet. Even those who keep books "usually have two or three," Binbin says. "They figure out what we want and write it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Betting on the Wrong Horse | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...place was so poorly heated that I, TIME's Shanghai correspondent, would take coffee breaks from typing in order to warm my hands on a hot mug. Last month I was just about to check into a hotel to write a story?when the electricity finally flickered back on. We thought we were the only people gullible enough to pay such an outrageous amount for our little house. Turns out that there are plenty of others in Shanghai able and willing to pay a lot more, forcing us to seek a new home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Cost of Living | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

Bemoaning the lack of space and time in which to write our theses one night, my roommate and I came up with the idea of an alternative spring option for seniors writing theses. Instead of cramming the thesis into a three course workload, in which snippets of time would be etched out to write a few lines, seniors could enjoy an extended reading period, and then choose from among a palette of “senior seminars” for the remainder of the spring. These would be seminars open to all seniors but limited to 12-15 each...

Author: By Sue Meng, | Title: A Modest Proposal | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

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