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...trunk strong enough to support itself in the shallows or on land. And most startling of all, when technicians dissected its pectoral fins, they found the beginnings of a tetrapod hand, complete with a primitive version of a wrist and five fingerlike bones. "This is not some archaic branch of the animal kingdom," says Shubin. "This is our branch. You're looking at your great-great-great-great cousin...
...creatively, to consider innovations, even radical ones, without being unduly wed to the comfort of the world as we know it. But as people who have benefited far more than most from the world as it is, we should remember to keep imagining the world as it can be. Archaic institutions, like St. Louis’s police system or any number of Harvard’s sacred cows, survive because we grant them more respect than they deserve.Samuel M. Simon ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...only reason a guy and a girl might want to live together is for a) incessant, vigorous sex or b) in order to topple civilization. Call me radical, but I find arguments against this legislation extraordinarily easy to dismantle, as they are, for the most part, based upon archaic Biblical fealty to Sodom and Gomorrah, fire and brimstone (Those crazy gays! It’s the new semitism...
Persistent “unscheduled e-mail service intermittencies” have returned fas email users to the archaic era of snail-mail and (God forbid) face-to-face interaction for the last week (see Crimson article: “Erratic E-mail Pesters Students,” 2/9/06). FM offers 15 ways to communicate when the network won’t cooperate. 1) Coded mixes on iTunes: “Let’s Get It On” doesn’t leave much room for interpretation 2) Smoke signals (warning: don’t let HUPD...
...Bill of Rights, n. Archaic document purported to state actual rights of all citizens; not currently used...