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...whatever myriad views are offered in this long-standing debate, "It is [not] the task of the University to apply a doctrinal test" to decide those issues, as Rudenstine put it. Therefore, Rudenstine declined to fire Gomes...
...first half of the book includes an environmental reference encyclopedia with a myriad of numbers and statistics that show how humankind threatens the world. However, unlike an encyclopedia, Earth in the Balance will not bore you. Gore successfully flowers facts with engaging narratives...
...have added that another major component of the structure of slaving involved African societies themselves, or more precisely not the victimized agrarian African masses but the cynical ritual leadership and chiefly leadership sectors of African societies who manned the scaffolding of slaving--without guns at their backs but with myriad mercantile capitalist resources as incentives--and they did this for a couple hundred of years...
...resigned as chairman of American Continental Corp., which had filed for bankruptcy protection, Keating looted the office of various and sundry supplies and had them shipped to a building he had rented. The alleged booty: lamps, typewriters, phone and computer equipment, a Minolta overhead projector and paper. "A myriad of items. Everything you'd need to start a new business," said a lawyer who is familiar with the investigation...
...solve one of life's oldest riddles with a toybox full of police cars, Lincoln Logs and Barbie dolls. For the past two years, Hines and her colleagues have tried to determine the origins of gender differences by capturing on videotape the squeals of delight, furrows of concentration and myriad decisions that children from 2 1/2 to 8 make while playing. Although both sexes play with all the toys available in Hines' laboratory, her work confirms what most parents (and more than a few aunts, uncles and nursery- school teachers) already know. As a group, the boys favor sports cars...