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...board does not simply crack down on the Greek houses without providing other social venues for students. If other forums for student life are not promoted by the administration, students will continue to flock to fraternities and sororities on the weekends. Elite, single-sex organizations will continue to flourish as long as dorm life is anonymous and alienating. If the board is serious about creating a greater sense of campus community, it must make real efforts to provide students with viable social options. The board has called for expanding the current student center and creating more social centers. This...
...remarkable species, the "extremophiles," have achieved astonishing feats of physiological adaptation at the ends of habitable Earth. In the most frigid polar waters, fish and other animals flourish, their blood kept fluid by biochemical antifreezes. Populations of bacteria live in the spumes of volcanic thermal vents on the ocean floor, multiplying in water above the boiling point. And far beneath Earth's surface, to a depth of 2 miles (3.2 km) or more, dwell the SLIMES (subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystems), unique assemblages of bacteria and fungi that occupy pores in the interlocking mineral grains of igneous rock and derive their...
...Gore, so far, does not. Gore gets part of the equation right--he backs statewide standards and testing--but comes up short on the issue of holding schools accountable for student performance. During his time as Vice President, the Education Department has done little to reward schools that flourish and nothing to sanction schools that persistently fail. And Gore remains fuzzy on the subject today. He says failing schools "should be shut down fairly and fast," but his campaign proposals don't spell out how he would do that as President. "Gore has been very, very soft on school accountability...
...head of the Roman Catholic Church, John Paul has one foot in the dimension of history (where mess, error, violence, fanaticism and stupidity flourish merrily) and the other in the dimension of eternity (where, he must insist, the holiness and infallibility of the church as the mystical body of Christ remain intact). It is awkward: How does infallibility own up to its fallibilities and yet remain infallible? The Pope's solution: by being vague about the actual sins and by attributing them, in any case, to men and women who are Catholics and not to the Catholic Church itself...
...essence of his working style is to create an environment in which people flourish," Wrangham says. "He does so by making life interesting and fun, and by bringing people with different kinds of ideas together...