Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to David Pilbeam, Ford professor of the social sciences and the dean for undergraduate education, Wrangham's book is "well done and full of insights and provocative argument...
Those who oppose single-sex social institutions on fundamental moral grounds are ironically adopting a much weaker argument. It is tempting to look at fraternities and final clubs and say, "Hey, they don't allow women to join [they're exclusive], and they don't accept people based on their personality [they're elitist]. How can we possibly condone that...
...common counter-argument to this point is that fraternities and final clubs are objectionable because they institutionalize the unfortunate necessities of elitism and exclusivity. But again, the simple answer is that every institution in this world that is worth its salt excludes based on those characteristics that affect its mission. If you're stupid, you won't get into Harvard. If you can't run quickly, you won't make the Olympics. No one screams at these flagrant violations of egalitarianism, nor should they...
Valuable and essential are ever shifting concepts. As more people spend their time sitting in front of screens, be they computer or television, the argument that newspapers are indispensable becomes harder to make. But industry analysts caution against undue pessimism. "More than 50% of households still receive a newspaper," says Michael Wolf, top media analyst at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. "A lot of people still want to know not just what happened but why it happened." In other words, editors need to worry not about things they cannot control--such as being faster than cnn, splashier than Entertainment Tonight or more...
WASHINGTON: Prices of tobacco shares tumbled Friday as investors reacted to a report of new scientific evidence linking cigarettes to lung cancer. The study, published in the journal Science strongly linked cigarettes to lung cancer and may force the tobacco industry to rethink its argument that no clear connection has been established between smoking and the disease. The research found a tobacco carcinogen called BPDE bonds to three molecular sites on a gene crucial to the development of cancer. The gene, known as P53, monitors DNA copying during cell division and destroys cells with defective copies of genetic material. When...