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...NATION, April 14] on Feb. 16. To Bell's credit, I had the opportunity to make very clear that I saw absolutely no scientific evidence for any spaceship companion to the Hale-Bopp comet. But I also cited positive evidence for the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence through the UFO phenomenon. It is easy to use the Heaven's Gate tragedy to debunk the entire range of phenomena associated with possible visitations, ignoring government cover-ups of reverse engineering and of radical new concepts in free-energy generation. We are in the midst of a profound scientific revolution, and the popular...
That strong first impression unfortunately began to give way to a sadly commonplace phenomenon in New England college golf: all golfers tend to play worse in college than they did in high school...
...result of the crowding phenomenon is a dedication of Reading Period to paperwork and Exam Period to reading. This chronology defeats the purpose of the academic structure, in which Reading Period is a time to review and synthesize a semester's work, and Exam Period is for more directed study. Reading Period, then, is neither restful (as it was originally intended to be so that graduate students and professors had time to complete their own work) nor productive (as it might be constructed with a new focus on the importance of undergraduate learning...
...hated them--even though I enjoyed teaching young children for over five years at my church. For Russian women, it is a luxury to stay at home with their children. After being pressured to work during the Soviet period, being a stay-at-home mom is a completely new phenomenon for them. There was one group of people in Russia that obliterated my association between weakness and being a stay-at-home mom. The strongest people I met in Russia were the babushki, that is, the grandmothers. There exists a certain respect for them among my young Russian friends...
Coming back to America, what I did notice is that there is a certain pressure inherent in American feminism. To illustrate this phenomenon, let me give you an example. Let's say that you're a first year female sitting in Greenough with your new rooming group. Everyone is saying what they want to do when they finish Harvard. The first five spit out illustrious goals: medical school, law school, high school math teacher, consultant, Ambassador to Turkey ... What does your sixth roommate want to be? Housewife. Housewife?! Be honest: what would you think about this career goal...