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...There is no blanket policy," she says. "We try to be as sensitive to the person's needs as possible...
...said the work done within MIT's large biology department was so diverse that its faculty could not be compared through blanket measures of academic performance or assessed by anyone outside of the institution...
...faculty say that Harvard's tenuring policies, evolving only slowly out of a near-blanket refusal to promote to the senior level, greatly reduce the numbers of top female scholars knocking on Harvard's door...
...this half-commitment, this milking of science without purchase, is the strange worldview that it allows. Instead of an accurate concept of the human, we get away with a fuzzy, mushy, spiritual concept that attempts to transcend the material and fools us into believing in a fuzzy, mushy, warm blanket of a universe. As the myth of our centrality in the universe spills over into our concept of the universe, massive complacency results. We are not nearly as afraid for our existence as we would be if we perceived the universe as it truly is, cold and hard, unfeeling, just...
Existence in our cold universe requires constant vigilance, a continual battle against entropy, not warm words and the delusion that we are somehow "different." Contrary to the inaugural ramblings of George W., no angel is directing this whirlwind of a universe. The sooner we admit that no magical blanket, no invisible, magical spirit protects us from our own stupidity, the more probable it becomes that we will survive for a significant chunk of time. It is time that we grow up, finally make a wife of science, face facts, take responsibility for our own survival and use our new bride...