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Paleontologists do not argue with those who accept this account on faith. But they take strong issue with practition-ers of "creation science," who purport to offer scientific evidence that this Fred Flintstone version of prehistory is correct. For decades a strong piece of that "evidence" has been a cluster of fossilized tracks in the seasonally dry bed of the Paluxy Creek, near Glen Rose, Texas. One track of three-toed footprints was obviously made by a dinosaur. The feet that made another track, crossing the first at an angle, lacked the giant toes and looked human to some...
...Zulu movement he leads. On May Day, when militant black union leaders who favor divestiture spearheaded a nationwide walkout, Buthelezi staged a rally to launch a new labor organization to challenge them. "Why are they so persistent to push disinvestment even with the knowledge that we blacks, whom they purport to be helping, are the ones who will suffer most?" he asks...
This is simply the wrong question to ask. And asking it can be paralyzing. TWSA does not purport to speak for every minority student on campus. It is an alliance of some members of five organizations which represent some Asian-American, Black, Chicano, Native American and Puerto Rican students...
IPPNW physicians do not purport to be arms control experts. They do however, speak as experts on the medical consequences of the arms race and nuclear war. It is for this effort to educate the world public that IPPNW was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The nuclear arms race is a problem with important political dimensions--but it is also the most profound public health issue of our time...
...Government at Harvard, or Dr. Alan Keys of the United States Department of State, have achieved a considerable measure of prominence. There is an irony in this. Their prominence, in view of the quality of the analysis, seems to belie the very existence of the mysterious meritocracy which they purport to endorse. There is an unmysterious reason for this. The empirical and historical work of Bourdieu, Jenks, Bowles, Edwards and Karabel, et al, demonstrate that educational and occupational advances are largely, although not exclusively, determined by the structural needs and inequities of the system. Loury, Keys and Co. seem...