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...fundamental truth. That said, precise, specific and, above all, accurate examples of how cultures experience physical phenomena differently are hard to come by. In fact, it seems obvious that these arguments are dubious at best. As Alan Sokal, one of the main antagonists of the science-as-a-social-construct view, points out in an unpublished letter to the New York Times, “What could [science critic Andrew] Ross possibly mean? That the law of gravity is a social law that men and women can change? Anyone who believes that is invited to try changing the laws...
...Chasing upperclass parties—38 percent: We’d convene after dinner and construct a game plan: there’s a party in Mather, but I’m not sure which room it’s in. There might be something going on in either Adams D or Eliot H. Ahhh, the days when a neon sign taped to my forehead blinking “freshman, freshman” couldn’t have been more obvious than my 23-to-a-herd traveling habits or 9:45 arrival time...
Iskovitz said that he was not bothered by Harvard’s plans to build an underground tunnel for its planned Center for Government and International Studies, as long as the University could construct it without disrupting city traffic...
...that extra processing into the details. Look at the way he awkwardly scrambles up a ledge, or how the water ripples around him when he swims. Not too many games encourage you to slow down instead of forcing you to keep moving. Not too many games encourage you to construct something rather than destroy it. These days, both activities come as a great relief...
...acknowledgment of what they have done to repair the mistakes of the past decade as a recognition of how they had tried--and failed--to prevent those mistakes from unfolding. In Kosovo and East Timor, the U.N. has begun to turn nation building into a science, learning how to construct functioning governments and societies in countries torn apart by hate. It is a skill the U.N. may soon be called on to apply in Afghanistan, a land where its efforts have been repeatedly--and sometimes brutally--thwarted by the Taliban...