Word: notionalism
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...half-million or so years ago-which the critics lambasted, is now looking less likely. But their new idea is even more audacious: the hobbits, they suggest, may come directly from the Australopithecus family, which went extinct something like 2 million years ago. Their detailed argument for this notion has yet to be published, and critics are still very cautious even about embracing the idea that the hobbits represent a new species at all. But while he agrees that more evidence is needed, Daniel Lieberman, a Harvard paleontologist who composed a commentary on the new discovery for Nature, writes...
...give them realistic solutions. Working with partner Martin Zogran and 19 students, he scoured the campus for places that fit their definition of a social space. The data, which is currently being refined, yielded 236 social spaces, 46 of which are in the Yard. “The notion of social space is grander, larger and more inclusive than what we thought before,” Kayden says. For instance, even the space just in front of the John Harvard statue counts as a social space. Each space was mapped, photographed, described, and entered into a database. The researchers classified...
...Harvard’s poorest workers is entirely unrelated to their fundamental human worth. However, by using the human worth of these individuals as the basis for entitling them to a certain level of monetary worth, the living-wage proponents inextricably yet fatefully marry the two previously separate notions. Once the notions of monetary and human worth have been linked—be it in the minds of students, workers, or living-wage advocates—the consequence is stark. As long as there ultimately exists some difference in monetary worth between Harvard’s lowest-paid workers...
...renovations are complete, Harvard will have all the individual resources any student center would possess—just not all in one place. The idea of a decentralized student center is new, untried, and somewhat bizarre, but that is precisely why it might actually work.Though some fear that the notion of a “decentralized student center” is just a clever excuse for not building a real one, maybe, for once, the administration does know best. SPACE JAMHarvard is an urban campus. Space is limited, precious, and extremely expensive. “Funding is difficult...
...that has been planned for months. What has led them to volunteer for duty? The answer lies partly in one man's need to expunge his sense of shame over his father's political betrayal. But the other simply wants to avoid being known as a total loser. The notion that suicide bombers are not all sociopaths is sure to incense many Israelis when the film opens in Israel in late October, the same day as its U.S. release. Yet the Israeli army which has controlled access to Nablus since the intifadeh erupted five years ago allowed Abu-Assad...