Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In addition to numerous articles published throughout his career, Mangelsdorf wrote Corn: Its Origin, Evolution, and Improvement, which observers hailed as a landmark work on one of the world's most important grains.
Bush -- and the West as a whole -- should go farther. Poland and Hungary are striving toward a societal ideal based on more than economic and democratic reforms. The components: a legal structure that guarantees individual rights and the existence of independent institutions -- such as churches, trade unions, newspapers, political organizations...
Rumors that V.S. Naipaul has mellowed are somewhat exaggerated. His testiness seems for the moment to be tempered by weariness. "The mind fills up with so many images," he says, and one is suddenly aware how many of our images of the Third World come from his tightly woven books...
You wouldn't know it from the way he acts, but Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould has yet to win the Nobel prize. Harvard professors write a lot of books, but most of them appeal to a fairly limited readership. Gould, however, already has several bestselling books on...
Elsewhere in the Communist world, leaders like Mikhail Gorbachev and Poland's Wojciech Jaruzelski are trying to break old patterns by channeling unrest and rising expectations into a limited evolution toward more democracy. China's old men seem to have missed the message -- and sacrificed much to their desire to...