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This year, Stonecypher is a student at Vanderbilt, but only because he did not win admission to Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale or Stanford. Unable to accept this nearly unanimous rejection as a sign that he wasn't Ivy League material (or at least that there were other students more suited for admission than he was), Stonecypher blamed a flaw in admissions policies. After all, how could these schools reject Mark Stonecypher, salutatorian of his class at John Carroll High School in Birmingham, Alabama...
First, they incorrectly assume that academic standards alone would suffice to distinguish between the eligible and the unqualified. The truth is that most applicants to Harvard are "qualified" for admission. But even if Harvard had a policy of accepting only valedictorians, it would still have to reject a number of applicants--and Mark Stonecypher would not even be eligible for consideration...
...scientists, too, can be guilty of the same sort of "willing suspension." Regardless of fault, the MGH team either chose to reject evidence, namely a set of mutations, which would suggest they were working on a crippled virus. Mudge felt that the information he had at his disposal was clear enough to reject other physicians' diagnoses...
...fractured and heavily armed society riven by civil war (here between the secularist P.L.O. and Islamic fundamentalists) simply dissolving into anarchy and chaos. Some are even predicting that Arafat may not live very long if he returns to Gaza, stronghold of the Islamic Hamas militants who revile him and reject any hint of coexistence with Israel...
...must change behavior and models of consumption. Humanity must reject self-deification. Man is not a god who owns nature. Man is part of nature. We must also recognize that productivity is not keeping pace with population growth, but when we look at ways to regulate population, it must not come from government but from new values. People must come to accept smaller families: I am very much against any use of force in this issue...