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...surface for home. Yet the earth's nearest neighbor may have once been more hospitable. Scientists for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that Venus may have been covered by a shallow sea, 25 ft. to 75 ft. deep, 3 billion years ago. Data sent back by the Pioneer probe on its final plunge through Venus' atmosphere last October revealed an unusually high concentration of heavy hydrogen, also called deuterium, which can be explained only if the planet was once much wetter...
Members of the committee also have shown interest in working at the pioneer College Republican Headquarters in Boston to research opposition strategies and voting records, Taylor said...
Likewise, the staff somehow thinks that for Harvard to seek out Latino professors is "demeaning." A Latino professor at Harvard wouldn't be a token but a long-overdue pioneer. Was the first Black student to go to a white public school in the South a "token...
...crucial question raised by such devious behavior is, To what degree does an animal actually understand what's in its rival's mind? If an animal knows when another creature is misinformed or has valuable knowledge, it gains an enormous advantage. In the late 1980s, a pioneer of animal-language work came up with an ingenious way of probing this question...
...other hand, I would differ from my Department of Government colleague, Associate Professor Katherine Tate, who claims to feel "very resentful" about expectations of Black faculty relating to Black realities, and also protests that "I wasn't recruited to pioneer for the race." Tate's formulation over-personalizes the Black relatedness issue--or, by extension, the woman relatedness issue--rather than keeping it framed in a developmental context...