Word: doned
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...things considered, do you believe Darwin was a great luminary in the path of human progress? What has the theory of evolution done for the practical benefit of humanity? It's helped our understanding of ourselves, yet compared to, say, the discovery of penicillin or the invention of the World Wide Web, I wonder why Darwin occupies this position at the pinnacle of esteem. I can only imagine he has been put there by a vast public relations exercise...
...Sending equipment is the majority of what we done now, but we also have a collaborative online platform for scientists around the world to talk to each other, and we are starting training exchange programs,” Dudnik said. “And then the sky is the limit...
...terrorists and cries of martyrdom have become almost synonymous with our identities—even here at Harvard. We constantly seek to dispel these stereotypes, precisely because of the damage they incur on personal and political levels. Yet instances like these remind us that there is work to be done. We call on the administration to be more sensitive to the needs and experiences of Arab-American student organizations on campus, recognizing the uniquely precarious position in which we find ourselves in the wake of tragedies that affect us all, as Americans...
...eyes of many, the damage has been done, and the UC has lost all the credibility it has worked so hard to cultivate over the past year. Harvard undergraduates deserve an organization with the ability to impact positive and lasting improvements to student life. What makes this controversy so particularly poignant is that it will undoubtedly jeopardize the UC’s ability to be that organization in the future...
...White House chief of staff as its CIA director. So many CIA veterans were not happy over the summer, when they felt that Panetta had failed to protect the agency from the political backlash over its Bush-era detention and interrogation practices. "There was a feeling [Panetta] had not done enough to defend the CIA from the politicians," says a former agency staffer. "People were asking, 'What's the point in having a so-called political expert as director if he can't do that...