Word: belief
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United in their belief that Rosy was impossible--there's no evidence that either man felt he had contributed to her reaction--Watson and Wilkins began chatting. "Now that I need no longer merely imagine the emotional hell he had faced during the past two years," writes Watson, "he could treat me almost as a fellow collaborator rather than as a distant acquaintance." In the course of that conversation, Wilkins trotted out one of Franklin's images of the B form of DNA. Labeled Photograph 51, it was her best--and, writes Watson, "the instant I saw the picture...
With regard to class, Cohen says that suburban sprawl wasn’t the same for everyone, distinguishing between “cop and fireman” suburbs and “upscale” suburbs to counter the false belief that America had one huge, equal middle class...
Last Friday she returned to these issues, arguing that the belief in “what’s best for me is what’s best for America” needs to change...
...cancer caused by D.U. After pretty much every national health service has studied the issue, it is accepted by everyone with any knowledge of the issue that there is no link between D.U. exposure and cancer. The only evidence that such a link exists is the very deeply entrenched belief held by very misguided people that it does...
...paper during reading period: see you later.” Alas, while scanning the particulars of the class’s requirements, rarely do we challenge the overwhelming assumption on which the grades are divvied up. For the mistaken—if understandable—belief in the desirability of continuous academic assessment, where a multitude of different factors contribute to one’s final grade, lies at the root of many of the current problems with undergraduate education at Harvard...