Word: goulds
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Stephen Jay Gould, Mayr's successor to the Agassiz professorship, wrote in the February issue of the science journal Evolution that 1904 was significant for being the year the ice cream cone was invented and the first Olympic games were held in America...
...poetry bounces along nicely, the croc follows the stowaways but politely refrains from eating anyone, and the elaborate drawings of pyramids under construction and of wall paintings are busy and interesting. (Readers of Stephen Jay Gould, the Harvard paleontologist, will recognize Gerrard's agreeable drawing style as "neotonic" -- all faces. Those of adults as well as children are drawn with the wide eyes and short, cute, chubby faces of toddlers.) Best of all, for quick-witted nine-year-olds, there are 10 secret messages written in real hieroglyphs, with a key to translation...
...name many scholars off the top of my head who would have done a better job of carrying out the ostensible purpose of the event, and would have done so without spewing bigotry: Henry Louis Gates, Stephen Jay Gould, Anthony Appiah, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Cornel West and Martin Kilson, to name...
...following Monday, Robert Gould Shaw, Parkman's brother-in-law and grandfather of the famous Civil War general, distributed 28,000 handbills telling of the professor's disappearance...
Merck & Co., which markets simvastatin under the brand name Zocor (and which funded the study), is expected to enjoy a boost in sales, as will other drug companies that offer competing products. "Anything that lowers cholesterol will produce the same effect," says Dr. Lance Gould of the University of Texas medical school in Houston. As if to underscore that point, a separate study released last week showed that a combination of estrogen and a new form of progesterone can cut cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart disease among postmenopausal women as much as 25% -- without serious side effects...