Word: originates
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...Irish, however, until the mid-19th century, when immigrants flocked to the city to avoid Ireland's potato famines. Since then, the Irish-American community has become a permanent fixture of Bostonian society. For 104 out of the past 110 years, the mayor of Boston has been of Irish origin...
...this creates the third problem: what about students like me who are of mixed Latin American origin? Should I join all the clubs that represent each third of my background? What if there isn't a club for one of my thirds? Should I then create one? Or should I be the founder of the Mixed Undergraduate Latinos at Harvard (MULAH) because I am so "culturally different" from other Hispanics...
...Harvard that I have to form a club of my own to feel like I care about who I am. I don't want to separate myself from other people who speak Spanish just because there are distinct political problems happening in the various countries that represent my origin or because there is a different dialect or slang in our common language. More and more I am feeling that to join one of these clubs would be to adhere to the belief that separation means identification, and I don't want to be identified that...
...have described humans as the animals who make tools, or reason, or use fire, or laugh, or any one of a dozen other appealing oversimplifications. Here's one more description for the list, as good as any other: Humans are the animals who wonder, intensely and endlessly, about their origin. Starting with a Neanderthal skeleton unearthed in Germany in 1856, archaeologists and anthropologists have sweated mightily over excavations in Africa, Europe and Asia, trying to find fossil evidence that will answer the most fundamental questions of our existence: When, where and how did the human race arise? Nonscientists...
...time of the Neander Valley find, Charles Darwin had not yet published his famous The Origin of Species, and evolution was still, at best, only a hazy conjecture among a handful of scientists. Indeed, most people then believed that human beings had remained essentially unchanged since creation...