Word: harborers
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...plaque lists his achievements while at Harvard, where he won the Nobel Prize and “planned the rejuvenation of the Cold Spring Harbor Lab under which he subsequently became director...
With the onset of capitalism, Praga's main thoroughfare, Zabkowska, has been partly renovated, and young local artists have moved in, attracted by low rents and an abundance of postindustrial space. Now cool galleries and bars coexist with crumbling historic buildings that harbor Virgin Mary figures in their backyards...
...renowned biologist implying that blacks might be genetically inferior to whites surfaced in the Times of London, Watson has faced a public uproar, comparisons to segregationist leaders, and dismissal from prominent scientific positions. There is talk of Watson losing his position as chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory—an institution he helped shape, ironically enough, from a relic of the eugenics movement to the cutting-edge research institution that is today—and many have suggested that his scientific reputation will be permanently tainted by his inflammatory statements. Watson’s assertion in the Times...
...London. “All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours—whereas all the testing says not really,” the newspaper quoted him as saying in reference to blacks. On Thursday, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the Long Island research institution that Watson has led to international prominence, announced it was suspending Watson as its chancellor, pending further review by its board. A onetime colleague of Watson at Harvard, Cabot Professor of Biology Richard M. Losick, said on Friday that he was “personally...
...sadly common enough for students of literature who harbor a passion for philosophy to find their curiosity rebuffed by arrogant university departments. Obsessed with their private jargon games, these faculties dismiss other disciplines as dealing with “pseudo-problems” at best and, at worst, fanning the flames of irresponsible politics. But in the late Richard Rorty, we have a philosopher from the analytic tradition who became its Judas, who boldly addressed continental thinkers like Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger, and writers like Proust, Yeats, and Nabokov...