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...Wilson support a biological explanation of individualistic natural selection for some elements of human behavior. Spencer contends in his writings that intelligence, aggression, revenge, justice, generosity, humanity, veracity, obedience, industry, temperance, altruism and a host of other characteristics can be inherited. Wilson has in his own synthesis identified certain peculiar characteristics of a universal human nature, including aggression, territoriality, and altruism, as possibly being controlled by genetic factors...
Says Aronson: "The Japanese artist has a peculiar way of seeing things. For instance, the white backdrops in Pacific Overtures are the way in which the Japanese depict clouds. Since this is a play about issues and not about people and moods, Hal and I decided on white lighting. The white shows everything on stage. It has a crispness, a simplicity, a directness about it." The entire show is lit by the harmony and taste of Boris Aronson's vision...
What contradictions exist in church doctrine are compounded in the unlikely meeting of Mormonism and Harvard. In this analytical and often cynical community, the spirituality of Mormons and their peculiar religious dogma stand out like saffron-robed Krishna followers in a crowd of Unification Church members. Just as the notion of an inconspicuous 19th-century American starting a religion heavily based on a pair of long-lost golden tablets brings snickers here, so the spirituality of Mormonism clashes with the pre-professionalism that prevails here. While Mormons are certainly not opponents of the return to academics, they do not spend...
...demands a peculiar kind of precision from police officers, namely a certainty about how much grass makes an ounce. A Los Angeles importer says he has sold several thousand pocket-size scales from Hong Kong to various police departments. In Los Angeles, the scales will be standard patrol-car equipment. San Francisco police, however, are relying on the less scientific rule that an ounce of marijuana is the amount that can be cupped in both hands without spilling any. Sacramento sheriff's deputies judge an ounce by how much will fit into a plastic sandwich bag, a traditional dope...
Whether on the Late, Late Show or in real life, monsters have always held a peculiar fascination for humans. Believers have fruitlessly scoured the mountains of the Pacific Northwest for Sasquatch, or Bigfoot, a giant, manlike creature who supposedly lives there; climbers and explorers have tried, with a similar lack of success to establish the existence of the yeti, or Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. But no creature has been sought so assiduously as "Nessie," the Loch Ness Monster, a mysterious beast first reported in Scotland's Loch Ness in 565 by St. Columba. Now a monster maven from...