Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Schultz is currently working to expand the genetic code from the naturally occurring 20 amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, to well over...
Edge currently has a full-time staff of about 20 people and is starting a comp to expand that base, Shapiro said. Harvard students will anchor the magazine, ultimately forming about half of the staff, while students from other campuses will make up the other half, he said...
What Choi means by blame, however, are student efforts to convince the University to expand the applicant pool of these minorities. Urging the University to increase recruitment efforts toward lower-income minority students is in no way sentencing the University to pay for a disparity in the educational footing of minorities. To say this would be to say the only motivation for recruiting those students is "white guilt," or some charitable instinct to help the less fortunate, when, in fact, there are a multitude of other reasons why the University should pursue diversity amongst its applicants...
...reminds us that "Harvard is not the world," yet he fails to expand his perspective of Asian-Americans to include both the classmates he sees at Harvard and, for example, the many Asian youth trapped in Chinatowns and ghettoes, to whom inter-Asian gang warfare is oftentimes more a reality than SAT scores...
...same time though, "You can't create a whole new kind of emotion and you can't make ridiculous connections like feeling affectionate for a bacterium. What you have to do is show how the rest of life, which is threatened with irreversible extinction, can enhance and expand human feeling and involvement and welfare in ways that people haven't yet understood but are there and can be explained. That is really, I think, a large part of the basis for a coming environmental ethic" E.O. Wilson, 16 October...