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...called for the formulation of a "new paradigm of the family" which would incorporate any relationship of two or more consenting individuals...
...field is currently undergoing a paradigm shift," says Catherine Woteki, director of the food and nutrition board at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. "We are now entering the second wave of vitamin research," explains Jeffrey Blumberg, associate director of the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. "The first wave was the discovery of vitamins and their role in combatting nutritional deficiencies such as rickets and beriberi. That occurred in the first half of the century. Now we're on the second wave. You don't need to take vitamin C to prevent...
Anderson says he finds one of the most fascinating aspects of the project to be its social and political importance. The international protocol developed after the discovery of the ozone hole has provided a paradigm for all future scientific studies, he says...
...secret that the department is home to a sort of Rational Choice Church: you're either a rationalist or you're not. You either accept the narrow rational-actor paradigm as the comprehensive framework for explaining everything about politics--as many tenured American government professors at Harvard happen to--or you see the model as useful but not the final word--as Mark Peterson and most other political scientists...
...particular interest to the Harvard community are those essays in the first section of the anthology, Politics and Society. Lerner opens with a powerful introductory essay called "A New Paradigm for Liberals: The Primacy of Ethics and Emotions." He's not afraid to criticize the methods and goals of the present liberal/progressive establishment, especially the Democratic Party's economic reductionism...