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...decision is a superficial, check-list notion of diversity. As opposed to looking at the individual person and his or her personal qualities and interests, the University has reverted to a group-identity form of diversity where two people from the same area and the same socio-economic milieu, interested in similar academic and extra-curricular activities, of different races are more "diverse" than two people from different parts of the country, with radically different family backgrounds and interests, of the same ethnicity. This is not to say that race does not play a central role in the formation...
...idea of harnessing Darwinian evolution to help humans do their programming is gaining currency, especially in the biologically oriented milieu in which Brooks and Maes operate. Farsighted proponents of this school imagine huge populations of digital agents meeting and mating in increasingly complex global networks--creating in their progeny artificial intelligences that exceed even the descendants...
...Paul, a college graduate, never thought he might one day be applying for jobless benefits. His father spent his entire career in the same company, where his security was never in doubt. The firm always found a niche for him. No one talks or acts that way in the milieu Paul knows...
...Christians believe was the Son of God. After all, writes biblical scholar R.T. France, "no 1st century inscription mentions him and no object or building has survived which has a specific link to him." Nonetheless, recent finds in the Holy Land have provided a wealth of insights into the milieu from which belief in Christ emerged...
...films and filmmakers mentioned above are only a fraction of those featured in the retrospective Others include: Len Iye, James Sibley Watson, Jr. and Melville Webber, James Whitney and Dwinnel Grant. Attending a lecture along with a screening is a good idea, since understanding the technique, milieu and decade in which these artists worked helps make sense of their non objective subjects...