Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conceived in 1969 as a joint Harvard-MIT project to develop computer methodology for the social sciences, it became a political target because of its Department of Defense (DOD) funding. In the uneasy political atmosphere of that fall, the Faculty debated whether to join the Project on an institutional basis while radical pickets, petitions, and demonstrations attacked it as a tool of U.S. government hegemony at home and abroad. While radicals attacked it as counter-revolutionary in intent, liberals accepted it as "value-neutral" basic research but questioned the ethical implications of DOD funding...
That chauvinism is displayed time and again, say exobiologists, by those who cannot conceive the possibility of life without water (which Sagan calls "liquid-water chauvinism"), without oxygen ("oxygen chauvinism") or in the presence of intense ultraviolet radiation ("ultraviolet chauvinism"). Yet life can indeed develop under conditions radically different from those on earth. It did, for example, evolve during untold eons on earth when there was no oxygen in the atmosphere. To those primitive forms of life, in fact, oxygen would have been a poisonous gas. Thus instead of requiring oxygen, Martian organisms, like some terrestrial bacteria, might thrive...
...script by Lawrence B. Marcus is the sort of thing that might have shown up years ago on Philco TV Playhouse as "strong adult drama." Indeed, the director-producer of Going Home, Herbert B. Leonard, served a lengthy apprenticeship in television. Too lengthy, perhaps. Both he and Marcus never develop their characters, as if they thought nuance could be provided with a twist of the fine-tuning knob...
Nunn will work with deans and officers of the Harvard Medical School, the School of Dental Medicine and the School of Public Health to develop an efficient and effective security system...
Radcliffe coach, Jean Evans, said that her players have shown marked improvement and should continue to improve during the season. The three freshmen, Jill Robertson, Maureen Crane, and Ingrid Sarapuu, should provide a base from which teams can develop during the next four years...