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...campus this year with his second wife, Cristi, "a fantastic, sweet, person, almost naive in her honesty," whom he met at Riverside. "People say you can't make long-distance relationships work. We made ours work, with phone calls and letters. I told her, 'I'm not a monk, I'm a Marine.' She told me to be discreet...
...dozen or more stones that must be cut from it. "The great trick is not to waste any. They are very expensive and they cost as much to ship as to buy. We have to squeeze out every inch." Gibson spent two years in The Bronx as a monk in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Inside the cathedral, he will tell you, he soars beyond the "furthest reaches of space...
...Origin of Species, assuring himself a slice of eternity and a reputation as one of history's most influential scientific thinkers. But, Mendel remained an obscure Austrian cleric, an inconsequential geneticist whose genius was not recognized until 20 years after, his death. Darwin was certainly unfamiliar with the monk's work, and Mendel has left no word of what he thought of Darwin's evolutionary theory, a theory that tried to explain the diversity and similarities among organisms, both past and present...
...debate. It is doubtful that either would have known if their work was related. Yet, when Mendel's work was revived in 1900, his experiments dealt Darwinism a nearly fatal blow. The popularity of Darwin's thought was already on the decline when Mendelism came into favor, but the monk's researches seemed to influence greater reproach for his theory. In 1907 a biologist named Vernon Grant had written a book citing dozens of objections to Darwin's theory and offering 24 alternate explanations of evolution. Many of his ideas sprang directly from the studies of Mendel. It seemed...
Showing off their new warm-up capes, the aquamen filed into the meet monk-like, with the capes draped over their heads, their chanting echoing in a Princeton pool that could probably rival a few monasteries in age. And when the capes were dropped, the Crimson showed off a swimming prowess that left the Tigers wishing for capes to cover their own heads...