Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cowboy achievement, paradoxically favors the Indian view of life. Nature is alive. The barest Antarctic rock is crawling with microbes. Viruses float on the dust. Bacteria help digest our food for us. According to modern evolutionary biology, our very cells are cities of formerly independent organisms. On the molecular level, the distinction between self and nonself disappears in a blur of semipermeable membranes. Nature goes on within and without us. It wafts through us like a breeze through a screened porch. On the biological level, the world is a seamless continuum of energy and information passing back and forth...
...real motivation for the center was the need for a full-fledged center with people with a high level of quantitative expertise," said Stephen W. Lagakos, the professor of biostatistics at the School of Public Health who will direct the center. He said that when the government first began funding AIDS research, it envisioned individual groups that would conduct small studies on their...
...report said the lower-level officers who rebelled were disgruntled over not being promoted. In their only communique, the rebels said they were discarding the entire high command. That communique was signed by a major and two captains...
...department has not made a senior level appointment since Werner Sollors, the department's chair, was tenured in 1983. Arnold Rampersad, another Afro Am literary expert, declined an offer from the University earlier this year...
...Bush tells governors they must raise state taxes to finance new education plans--he only believes in "no new taxes" at the federal level. This overwhelming hypocrisy may ultimately prove to be a major stumbling block to progressive reform in the educational system. Fifty independently conceived and funded approaches to education do not a national policy make...