Word: gradualism
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...problems caused by such loss of sense can be more than aesthetic. People who prepare their own food may unconsciously adjust to a gradual loss in sensitivity by brewing a stronger cup of coffee or adding more seasoning to foods. But ignorance can be dangerous. "Some people undereat because food is so unpalatable that they've lost the desire," says Arlene Spark, coordinator of public health nutrition at Hunter College. "Others overeat because they're looking for something that tastes good." Still others omit important food groups, like vegetables, which to smell-impaired people can taste bitter. The dangers...
...presented by paleoanthropologist Erik Trinkaus [PALEONTOLOGY, May 3], who supports the idea that there was interbreeding between prehistoric Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens. Archaeologists merely uncovered a single skeleton of a child with a mixture of modern and Neanderthal features. To deduce that this indicates a peaceful coexistence or gradual immersion of Neanderthals into the Homo sapiens gene pool is groundless and inconsistent in the face of DNA testing recently conducted. The Neanderthals, like other hominids, are no more. Perhaps mankind's evolution was a more violent affair than we would like to believe. Yet even today the killing continues...
...announcement earlier this month that the A.D. club would close its doors to undergraduate members in order to clean up the building for its upcoming anniversary serves as a fitting footnote to a year that has seen the gradual retreat of the final clubs from the center of the Harvard social scene. Though the shutdown of the A.D. is being labeled a "temporary" move by current members and alumni, we hope the announcement, along with changes the other clubs have made this year, will lead to a permanent and positive change to the social atmosphere on campus...
...seem paradoxical that centuries-old nationalist passions are reentering the political mainstream at a time when Britain itself is being increasingly absorbed into the European Union's supra-state, but the gradual merging of Europe's nation-states may be actually encouraging renewed claims to sovereignty in its component parts. And making London and other capitals more relaxed about extending autonomy...
...western borders. At a village a day--the rate Milosevic calculated the West would tolerate--Serbia could methodically eliminate the Kosovar population over a number of months. Analysts knew Milosevic would intensify his purge if bombing started. But they believed his intent was to crush the K.L.A. and then gradually drive out the entire ethnic Albanian population. Among political decision makers at NATO and at the White House, conventional wisdom also said Milosevic would cave after a few days of bombing. That scenario seemed so convincing that they settled on an air campaign of gradual escalation, beginning with limited attacks...