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Edward O. Wilson is probably the most controversial entomologist of all time. Three years ago, the Harvard professor published a mammoth academic tome, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, arguing that social behavior has a biological base. The first 26 chapters on organisms and lower animals attracted little attention, but the final, almost offhand chapter on humans touched off the furor. Wilson speculated that the sexual division of labor is genetically based, genes may exist for homosexuality and spite, and a "loose correlation" is likely between genetically determined traits and worldly success. For his pains, Wilson was heckled, picketed and denounced...
...inside word is that the University--if it comes anywhere close to fulfilling the goals of the mammoth fund drive--will almost surely cough up $1 or $2 million crumb to get rid of the obsolete electrical, heating and plumbing systems that are supposed to protect the well-being of thousands of Harvard students...
...when Pioneer Brigham Young gazed down at the desolate Salt Lake Valley and declared: "This is the place." His Latter-day Saints, hounded out of three states, had found their homestead. Last week in Salt Lake City, 200,000 people celebrated the Pioneer Day legend with a mammoth parade. At the head of the procession was Brigham Young's latest successor, Spencer Woolley Kimball, 83, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Behind him were brass bands, floats, fiddlers, and such lesser dignitaries as Scott M. Matheson, the Governor of Utah...
Mormon evangelism even extends beyond the grave. The church believes that people who have died can only have an opportunity to accept the "restored Gospel" if Mormons on earth are baptized on their behalf in the temple. To make this mammoth task possible the church is collecting literally billions of names in its huge genealogical files, and members are baptized repeatedly in the names of ancestors and even nonrelatives. In April Kimball's administration arranged a speedup of such temple "work...
...seems the Supreme Court has made a mammoth effort to please everybody on either side of the Bakke case. To a large extent they have succeeded: admissions offices are pleased that they may continue to take race into account, groups like the American Jewish Congress are happy the Court declared the use of quotas unconstitutional in admissions, and Bakke himself is satisfied at being legally vindicated...