Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...October 1991, the president called for the creation of the office of the provost during his first official address to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...creation of a faculty committee will draw professors into public service in an official capacity for the first time. While no professors even commented on the proposal when it was discussed at a Faculty meeting, we would be very surprised if none volunteered their services for this excellent cause. This committee should seek to involve itself and other faculty in the execution and expansion of public service, not just the oversight of existing programs...
...Kwanzaa is a celebration of survival, of life, of building and of creation," said Kristen M. Clark '97, president of the Black Students Association (BSA). "It is the only national non-heroic and non-religious ceremony [for Blacks...
...Instead it has been turned into a relatively modest HBO movie (which debuted last weekend). That fate, however, is hardly to be lamented. The TV-size budget, for one thing, has forced director Christopher Menaul (Prime Suspect) to be resourceful. Instead of a lavish (and possibly campy) physical re- creation of the new Greater Germany, he suggests it in small, swift strokes. Tour buses carrying Western reporters on their first visit since the war roll past billboards touting one-world harmony and vacations in "Paris, Germania." (There's also an ad for the Beatles; those Hamburg clubs apparently survived...
President Clinton today rejected a controversial National Institutes of Health advisory panel's unanimous endorsement of government support ofhuman embryo research-- potentially used to correct infertility and avoid birth defects. "I do not believe that federal funds should be used to support the creation of human embryos for research purposes," Clinton said, continuing a ban first established by President Ronald Reagan. The panel's proposal came over intense opposition from groups that believe human life, for legal purposes, should begin at the moment of conception. The prominent doctors and researchers on the panel moved forward carefully, saying the work should...