Word: distinctively
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...years ago. Did a bridge of land connect Laurasia and Gondwana after the rest of the landmasses had mostly separated? That's what the new evidence suggests. By 90 million years ago, the separation of continents was evidently complete; Deltadromeus and other African dinosaurs from that period are quite distinct...
...time has come again for Nancy Raine Reyes' year in review; the column in which I talk about what has been thrilling, exciting, annoying and even particularly retarded about Harvard this year--the column which is clearly distinct from all of my other columns...
...argument's sake that the abuse of a law allowing assisted suicide is a distinct possibility [MEDICINE, April 15]. Would it not be better to tailor the law with stringent conditions and guidelines rather than throw it out altogether? Many of the laws of this country are susceptible to abuse. Consider freedom of speech or the right to bear arms. Should we throw them out? The decision to die should be personal. Only the individual who is suffering can say when bearable pain has become unbearable. If that person wishes to be dead, why are we arguing? Whose life...
Mansfield's comments on diversity are easy to attack, but Rudenstine's report is dangerous, in a distinct and subtle way. Through its omissions, the report succeeds in painting a superficial and ultimately dishonest picture of diversity at Harvard, one that admirably draws out the theoretical implications of diversity without looking at the real ways in which it is practiced. "Diversity and Learning" is a failure -- but not for the reasons cited by Mansfield. It is a failure because of its incompleteness...
Moreover, these "safe" black children are always in a very distinct minority. There are enough of them for blacks to feel they are not just tokens but not so many that whites feel uneasy. The poor kids who attend such schools are charity cases, gifted children carefully selected to make sure they...