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...Gilligan says such arguments miss part of the point of her book. Many women's distinct moral outlooks--long considered deficient--should be seen instead as strengths...
Amidst all the festivities surrounding Commencement, there is a distinct temptation to let bygones be bygones, to raise a glass with my peers, and to toast Fair Harvard. I will resist that temptation. I will not celebrate a place that not only disregards, but actively demolishes, the qualities of decency and humility in the people that it educates. I will raise a glass to my small group of friends, who far better than I, have managed to navigate these past four years with their sense of philanthropy and optimism intact. Whatever good, they, or I, accomplish in the world, will...
...erectus bones found outside Africa, these new ones are closest in form to African H. erectus--and may belong to a distinct species, Homo ergaster, which some experts have until now assigned to Africa. Since modern Homo sapiens is believed to have descended directly from H. ergaster, the discovery of closely related bones in Eurasia suggests that our own species may have evolved outside the ancestral continent or arisen in several places simultaneously. Says Swisher: "If you have the ancestral form outside Africa, then you have to entertain those thoughts...
Life cycles for people and plants, for businesses, industries, economies and entire civilizations have four distinct quarters: gestation, growth, maturity and decline. The Internet is the main event of the information economy's mature quarter, the last phase of it being marked by the widespread use of cheap chips and wireless technology that will let everything connect to everything else. Life cycles overlap. So the information economy will mature in the years ahead as the bioeconomy completes its gestation and finally takes off into its growth quarter during the 2020s...
...streetfight between the papers' editors. Now the bean-counters at the papers have called a truce, entering into a joint operating agreement (JOA) that will merge the Post's and News' circulation and advertising departments into a single entity. And though the agreement keeps the two editorial departments technically distinct, TIME Denver bureau chief Richard Woodbury says it looks like Denver is not long from becoming, like nearly every other city in the country, just another one-newspaper town. "Historically, these agreements tend to eventually mean doom for the weaker paper, which in this case is the money-losing News...