Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These students proposed different theories that explain the lack of romance at Harvard, which I shall now present objectively without any shred of bias...
...role in the military. Let's begin with a comparison, two differing views on the worth of sexual minorities. Harvard University holds that "it is unacceptable to harass or discriminate against students because of sexual orientation." The U.S. military and its campus manifestation, ROTC, contend that gays and lesbians present a security risk and such "sexual deviance" (their vocabulary) is actively discouraged. Individuals proven to have homosexual tendencies are either forced to resign or given medical discharges. Here there is no positive message to gay people, just criminalization at all levels of the institution...
...just as two dimensional through powerful modern telescopes as they did to the eyes of the ancient Greeks, and until recently, no one could say for sure whether the myriad galaxies were organized in some meaningful way. Astrophysicists are fiercely competing to discover how the universe evolved into its present structure, but they cannot test their theories until they know what that structure...
...discovery announced this week. Scientists from Caltech, Princeton and the Institute for Advanced Study have detected the most distant quasar (an exceptionally bright starlike object) ever spotted. It is billions of light-years away, and the researchers estimate that it existed when the universe was only 7% of its present age. It is hard to explain how a quasar could be formed that early, even under the influence of cold dark matter...
...long as three days while calls bounced between agencies. When relatives of John Ahern, 26, went to New York City's Kennedy Airport, they were directed to a livestock warehouse where his body was forklifted off a plane in a cardboard box. No Pan Am or Government representative was present to help them. "They stripped him of his dignity," says Ahern's sister Bonnie O'Connor. "He should have come home with an American flag on his coffin...