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...closing, I would like to thank Mr. Lat, The Crimson and the Harvard community for this profile. I would also like to add that sociologists, like those who teach and do research at Harvard, suggest that people respond and adapt to their environment. Provide a good, healthy environment and those type of people will emerge; a bad environment will produce a more negative group. The weight of that choice rests primarily with Harvard. Joseph D. Power Carpenter Steward --Thayer Hall Carpenters Union Local...
...journey back from a failed communist state, but the country is already on that road, like it or not. "People say we are a dinosaur," says Juan Antonio Blanco. "But look at the map. Cuba is shaped like a crocodile. And like the crocodile, the Cubans have learned to adapt. That's why we're still around...
...Master Scholar). Apparently there was an earlier pedagogue in our crowd. For tax purposes or other bureaucratic reasons, the authorities in a few countries around 1810 ordered Jews to give up generic Hebrew titles. Like all Diaspora Jews over the centuries, the first Baratz did what seemed necessary to adapt, adding vowels to the B, R and Tz of Ben Reb Tzadik to produce Baratz. So Harold Baratz, in his own way, adapted. But he lived long enough to understand that his was the last generation in America to perceive a need for camouflage...
Some of the features that allow the twinsix-story structures to adapt so well include thebay windows, the low height, and the lead-coatedcopper mansard roofs, Ortale said...
...amber, geologists have identified a new culprit for the disappearance of the dinosaurs: bad air. The theorists calculate that the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere fell from 35% to 28% over the course of 500,000 years and suggest that the dinosaurs' respiratory systems were unable to adapt to the change...