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Mainly by putting old doubts in new bottles. Michael Behe, a biochemist at Lehigh University, invented the label "irreducibly complex" for structures that could not have arisen incrementally. And rather than dwell on the eyeball, he applies the term to such microscopic entities as the human blood-clotting mechanism. In his book Darwin's Black Box, Behe says this mechanism, involving more than a dozen proteins, could hardly have emerged full-blown in a single mutation. Yet it couldn't have been built one protein at a time, he says, because without any one protein it would be useless...
...usually plays a song, Mayer recognized that the medium is vital to the emerging artist. “It [MP3’s] made all the difference in the world to my career. I didn’t have to wait to be on a big record label before I had fans.” And the fans did come; the Avalon was sold out mostly to college students who struggled to get the best view of the heartthrob that they could...
...onscreen incarnation, Rushmore’s dork king Jason Schwartzman got to be the president of the Debate Society and the founder of the Bee Keepers Club. In real life, he gets to play drums for the sunny post-grunge band Phantom Planet. The band’s new label, Epic, has dolled up the fivesome in worn denim and messy hair, plopped them on a sidewalk stoop and photographed them in black and white for an album cover worthy of The Strokes. And why not? If that band can make it big with throwbacks to punk?...
...goes along. Of course, this vision is imperfectly realized. History and Literature, for instance, associates what it admits to be two very different methods of inquiry, and one wonders whether political philosophy, political economy and rational-choice theory all deserve the same “government” label. Some of the sciences and the various “literatures and languages” require a significant amount of technical specialization before the real methods can be applied. But the focus on methodology has at least the aim of ensuring that by the time they graduate, students are capable...
Griffin says the EPA relies on stringent “command and control” regulations that make numerous, specific requirements—down to the exact font that must be used to label hazardous chemicals...