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Oliver narrowed the focus of the discussion, offering potential solutions to Chicago's inner-city housing problem which included downsizing the role of the federal government in housing development. She called for a "new paradigm" where profit and non-profit organizations would work together to develop an economically diverse community of public housing mixed with middle-income condominiums...
Starzl's epiphany--which he calls a "paradigm shift" in transplant thinking--in no way diminishes the work already accomplished. The surgical techniques used by him and his colleagues have added years--decades in some cases--to the lives of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children. From the 1950s through today, physicians like Starzl, Barnard, Toronto's Joel Cooper and Stanford's Norman Shumway have moved mountains' worth of kidneys, pancreases, livers, hearts and lungs from one human body to another...
...definition of multiculturalism in this country, and scholars of the field still acknowledge, proudly, the openly political nature of their discipline, for, to them and to many minority students, racism is endemic to American society and so deeply ingrained in academia and other areas of life that radical paradigm shifts are necessary to even begin to overcome the legacy of discrimination that haunts this country. Although the The Crimson Staff may claim, and rightly so, that the experiences of African Americans are very different from those of Asian Americans, Latino Americans and Native Americans, one cannot dismiss historical patterns...
...Tofflers who brought futurism to the masses. Future Shock made the new profession cool. The book and its best-selling sequels, The Third Wave (1984) and Powershift (1990), examined not just tomorrow but today, not just one industry but all mankind, making the paradigm-shattering argument that what was really changing society was the radical acceleration of change itself. Future shock, the Tofflers said, is what happens when change occurs faster than people's ability to adapt to it. The book resonated for the 1960s counterculture, and in some ways it echoes even louder in the digital era. "People today...
DIED. THOMAS KUHN, 73, influential history of science professor; of cancer; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kuhn said that scientific advancement was revolutionary--not evolutionary--and occurred when one scientific paradigm displaced another...