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...hope was that these recipients could then share the message with their units with appropriate local context,” Smith said...
...theory, the concept that the female gestation period can range anywhere from six months to five years—an idea contained in the Hadiths, or sayings of the prophet Muhammad—women accused of adultery and facing death by stoning can be defended within the context of Sharia, said Ibrahim, the Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute...
...proved to be an excellent hypothetical testing ground for GSD students, said Huyck. The architects-in-training met with a panel of Allston developers to learn how to incorporate community’s needs into their plans. The students also spoke with several undergraduates about House life in the context of a residential system with a distinct philosophy that dates back to President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877.According to Levi, Lowell conceived of the current housing system in response to the economic stratification in College housing in the early 20th century.Lowell’s vision challenged...
...Gladwell tries to dispel the myth that men make their own destinies, instead advancing the thesis that “outliers”—the so-called “best and the brightest”—are the result of the context in which their success took place. Outliers can’t be understood as isolated prodigies because success is not an individual phenomenon; successful people, Gladwell argues, never rise from nothing. This is hardly an uncontroversial claim in a culture that prides itself on being a meritocracy. Tales of 21st century self-made...
...gene discovered on chromosome 14, which had the strongest association of the five, was also the only one identified that had not been observed before in any context, Tanzi said. “That’s always the most fun,” he added...