Word: adoptionism
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The fear and confusion unleashed by the abduction stories can't be expressed as math. Its power is primal, as gripping as an empty crib. Journalists know this: imperiled children mesmerize. There aren't many stories with villains so wholly evil and victims so absolutely undeserving. What's more, with...
Natural air circulation is a preoccupation of green architecture. With the widespread adoption of air conditioning after World War II, the typical office building was constructed to be more airtight than a mummy's tomb. Now designers are rediscovering principles of ventilation and air circulation familiar to builders of the...
The legislation asks Summers and FAS to “work with the ROTC to facilitate the adoption of policies that would allow relevant FAS courses to satisfy curricular requirements of the ROTC” so long as they do not violate the University’s anti-discrimination policy...
And what places she has been--learning to fly at 17 on a small grass strip in East Stroudsburg, Pa., moving to fly for Shamrock Airlines in Puerto Rico in 1972 because no U.S. airline would hire a female pilot, and in 1978 becoming the first woman pilot hired by...
The female shortage in China is only worsening. In 2000, 900,000 fewer female births were recorded than should have been, based on male births. In 1990 the shortfall was 500,000. Some of that owes to parents giving up daughters for adoption without registering their birth. But population experts...