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...blocking group exhibits this racial and ethnic diversity. But the fact that some Houses have larger percentages of certain groups means that other students would rather live with students of similar racial, cultural, or ethnic origin. A caring, understanding residential community is of tremendous importance in an individualistic, stress-filled campus like ours. Students should not be denied the freedom to seek their own caring communities as they...
...mostly worried about oppressive majority factions. The modern special-interest group was a species unknown to him. Still, he had a fundamental insight that explains the subsequent origin of that species and its growth. The beauty of a large country, he noted, is the damper it places on factionalism. For when people are dispersed far and wide, even if some of them have "a common motive," the distance among them will make it hard for them to organize -- "to discover their own strength and to act in unison with each other." The history of communications technology over the past...
...genetic atlas also sheds new light on the origins of populations that have long mystified anthropologists. Example: the Khoisan of southern Africa (Bushmen and Hottentots). Many scientists consider the Khoisan a distinct race of very ancient origin. The uniqueness of the clicking sounds in their language has persuaded some linguists that the Khoisan are direct descendants of the most primitive human ancestors. But their genes beg to differ. They show that the Khoisan may be a very ancient mix of west Asians and black Africans. A genetic trail visible on the maps shows that the ancestral breeding ground for this...
...most distinctive members of the European branch of the human tree are the Basques of France and Spain. They show unusual patterns for several genes, including the highest rate of the Rh-negative blood type. Their language is of unknown origin and cannot be placed within any standard classification. And the fact that they live in the region adjoining the famous Lascaux and Altamira caves, which contain vivid paintings from Europe's early hunter- gatherers, leads Cavalli-Sforza to a tantalizing conclusion: "The Basques are extremely likely to be the most direct descendants of the Cro-Magnon people, among...
...together a psychological profile of their prey. They can tell by the handmade wooden boxes and by the tiny, handcrafted screws that he is a meticulous, even compulsive, man. He spends hours, they say, cutting, filing and whittling little bits of metal and wood, removing any hints of their origin. According to retired FBI bomb expert James Ronay, the bomber also assembles and disassembles the whole thing several times before he is through. He has "an uncontrollable urge to fool with this thing as much as possible," Ronay explains. "And ultimately you put it down and have it kill somebody...