Word: locus
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...most compelling evidence that cell phones inhabit the social and cultural locus that cigarettes once did is that, quite literally, one has replaced the other. While cigarettes have fallen into relative disuse, cell phones in the U.S alone have risen from 16 million users in 1994 to 110 million users in 2000. Indeed, a study in the British Medical Journal reports that declines in smoking are concomitant with the rise in cell phones. This seems intuitive given their mutually exclusive cost, that they both occupy the hands, etc. The researchers also note rather wittily that “both objects...
...leadership does not stop on the field. The seniors' room in Winthrop has become the locus of social activity for the softball squad...
...obvious and formidable--the lack of any suitable land in notoriously crowded Cambridge, indifference or opposition from much of the administration and the staggering cost of any new construction. Moreover, the two main proposed purposes of a student center, more office space for student groups and a new locus for student community, can be easily realized with existing buildings and institutions...
...environmental influences; nature and nurture co-choreograph our intellectual steps and missteps. Still, it often seems superficial and reductionist to explain complex mental machinations with a chromosome number and base substitution. How can we possibly acknowledge the flair of the human thought process by merely pinpointing a genetic locus...
...House system was not without its problems. From the start, Lowell's tutorial program seemed to founder, prompting a Student Council report in 1959 that lamented a lack of interaction between students and faculty. Lowell's vision of the House as an academic locus gave way to his notion of the House as the center of social interaction. As all the students of the College settled in to live and play football together, it was entirely the social dimension that cut away at the elitism of class Lowell deplored. More memorably, in the eyes of Harvard students at least...