Word: environmental
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Midway through “Generosity,” Richard Powers’ stunning new novel, the charming businessman and geneticist Robert Kurton participates in a public debate with an unnamed novelist. The subject: genetic enhancement of human beings. The shy author begins, awkwardly reading from a prewritten speech. But...
These fragments were later identified as flax fibers. This flax would have been gathered from the environment, most likely by women, according to Bar-Yosef. Flax was not domesticated until the Neolithic era thousands of years later, he added.
The flexibility of the SDM Hand lets it conform to and grasp objects of different sizes and shapes that may not be in the position predicted—in other words, the environment found outside of the laboratory, added Dollar.
Standing Apart I caught up with Snowe in the chandeliered reception room adjacent to the Senate chamber as she was racing from the Finance Committee's first drafting session for its health-care bill to a vote on the Senate floor and then to a luncheon with her Republican colleagues...
The No. 6 Harvard men’s soccer team (6-0-0) knocked off New Hampshire, 1-0, yesterday afternoon in Durham, N.H. to preserve its perfect record ahead of the much-anticipated matchup with No. 3 Wake Forest this weekend. The kicker: according to Crimson coach Jamie Clark...