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...Descendants of these seven lineages show up in all European ethnic groups, so correlating them to our modern notions of ethnicity is pointless. There is no evidence that differences in mitochondrial DNA track with any other inherited traits. Besides, there is the small matter of men, whose genetic contributions don't show up in mitochondrial DNA. In the coming months, Sykes expects to start offering codification of the prehistoric ancestral information imbedded in the Y chromosome. Other recent research suggests that there are 10 patrilineal lineages in Europe; Sykes says there are more, and he is likely to create names...
Speaking of publications, they range from the liberal (Perspective) to the conservative (the Salient) to the pointless (The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
Late in the third period, the Dartmouth offense showed no sign of being able to get the puck past the Harvard defense and freshman goaltender Jessica Ruddock. The only suspense left was whether Botterill would be held pointless for the first time in her 81-game career...
...would be pointless merely to add our voice to the growing pile of condemnations of the paper thieves. What is most concerning about the Brown debacle is not the theft or its intellectually dishonest defenders, but rather the assumption, equally shared by the Third World coalition and many of its detractors, that newspapers are ideological monoliths--that the decision to accept an ad or revise a story can be motivated only by political biases and not by honest deliberation on journalistic principles. After all, the Daily Herald printed the advertisement even though it has taken no position on reparations...
...test's prominence ensures that shouting matches will erupt over it regularly. Usually one side says the SAT should die because it's racist; the other says it should flourish because it maintains standards. Their arguments are important but had started to seem pointless, since the number of SAT takers has increased virtually every year since Pearl Harbor...