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Five new junior Faculty members, the cream of a crop of more than 1,000 applicants, will join the Department of English as assistant professors in the fall, Department Chair Lawrence Buell said yesterday...
...current crop certainly has succeeded on paper, but several disappointing setbacks earlier in the season prevented the team from cementing its place in history. Saturday provided the defining moment to do just that...
...current crop certainly has succeeded on paper, but several disappointing setbacks earlier in the season prevented the team from cementing its place inhistory. Saturday provided the defining moment todo just that...
...safeguard its investment in genetically engineered seeds by making sure they can't reproduce seems understandable and justified. It is intended to provide the company with protection similar to that available to developers of hybrids; in most instances, only the first progeny of a hybrid is a marketable crop, and subsequent seed crops do not carry the parents' useful characteristics. Monsanto's effort to protect what is rightfully the company's may help to stimulate further plant research, to the betterment of agriculture and horticulture. TIB SZEGO Lindsay...
...doesn't seem like the current crop of student activists have even tried to make that calculation: protesters occupying buildings today do so almost as if it's part of a public relations game. The headline "Students Occupy President's Office" no longer resonates with earthshaking, symbolic significance; it's a tired cliche. Administrators at Duke hardly took the students occupying their offices seriously, instead praising them for their cleanliness and studiousness. Everyone seems to have forgotten that, however routine and perfunctory taking over administration buildings may have become, symbolic action can become very real, very quickly. The potential...