Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pinker has little patience with critics, particularly Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who accuses evolutionary psychologists in general (and presumably Pinker as well) of indulging a "penchant for narrow and often barren speculation" and "pure guesswork in the cocktail-party mode." Pinker has even less patience with those who would confuse an evolutionary explanation for how the human mind evolved with the idea that our fate is genetically predetermined. Genes, he says, "do not dictate what we should accept or how we should live...
...response has been really great. I think people are excited that someone's going to take what we've learned here and use it right away," Carlson said. He said that several students are helping him plan the campaign, including a fundraising cocktail party planned for tomorrow...
...Dalai Lama (Jamyang Wangchuk, a radiant 14-year-old from Bhutan). The boy-god of Tibetan Buddhism wants to meet this "yellowhead" who can shed light on a world that is to him only a picture-book fantasy. "For example, where is Paris, France? And what is a Molotov cocktail? And who is Jack the Ripper?" The Dalai Lama becomes the most avid student of a man who never knew he was a teacher. And Heinrich, who has been renounced by the son he never met, sees in the Dalai Lama a boy so beautiful and curious he could...
...Pudding alleged that the Lampoon door-dropped 500 fake punch invitations Sunday night to first-years in the Yard and Union dorms. From Hollis to Hurlbut halls, first-years trekked down to the Hasty Pudding clubhouse for what the false invitation described as a "cocktail party for prospective members...
...results, says TIME's Christine Gorman, noting that his survey is based on an incomplete analysis of the HIV levels in the subjects. Equally important, the study doesn't take into account whether all the patients were actually following the rigorous and demanding pill-popping regimen that the chemical cocktail demands. Up to 20 pills a day must be taken at specific times, and doses must be calibrated to the individual. Since each individual responds differently to the medication, it's difficult to determine whether the drugs are in fact losing their effectiveness ? or if people aren't following their...