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...lack of grounding... it seems to me that we willy-nilly constitute such authorities and authenticities every day-necessary." But although theory can alert us to "the constituted and contingent nature of those touchstones...it is less useful in so far as it neglects to indicate how we might construct touchstones that would work better ad in more socially and politically progressive ways than the ones we have so far." Paradoxically, it is only in the recognition of his limitations that theory ultimately comes into its own as a tool...
...short, Johanson presents paleoanthropology as a kind of detective story, in which physical evidence is carefully gathered, painstakingly assembled and used to construct a convincing story of what actually happened. (In fact, Lovejoy, Johanson's frequent collaborator, also works with real detectives to solve murders and other crimes...
...Walter said the Harvard proposal requested permission to renovate an existing laboratory on the fifth floor and construct a greenhouse on the sixth floor. Walter said Harvard's proposal misrepresented the planned renovation because the biolabs had no sixth floor until the construction of the greenhouse...
While many felt obligated to see "Schindler's List," few feel compelled to learn about the horrors in Bosnia, much less construct coherent thoughts about what might be done...
Melissa Franklin, associate professor of thenatural sciences, says she was working on adifferent project--to construct a detector made ofsynthetic polycrystalline diamond. The diamonddetector would have withstood the massive doses ofradiation in the interior of the collider, shesays...