Word: review
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According to the letter, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles decided to transform the department into a committee after several years of review. Knowles could not be reached for comment...
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...recent years, the council has intermittently made gains in those directions. Unfortunately, it is now too embroiled in its own internal workings--a college-wide committee to review the council's structure and two internal scandals and counting this year--to make any headway on the campus front...
...quarter-century later, Profet, 35, thinks she has finally made sense of it all, and in a startling turnaround, it is her views that are bugging the experts. Writing in the current issue of the respected Quarterly Review of Biology, the evolutionary biologist from the University of California, Berkeley, has proposed a radical theory of menstruation that not only challenges accepted wisdom but stands it on its head. According to Profet, a woman's flow is not some incidental event in the reproductive process or just a sign of failed fertility. Instead, it is a mechanism that protects fertility...
...brilliant hypothesis and substantial evidence. I'm curious to see if it holds up," says Dr. Randolph Nesse, a psychiatry professor at the University of Michigan. "It's the only serious contender for a plausible evolutionary explanation of menstruation," declares George Williams, an editor at the Quarterly Review of Biology, which is published by the University of Chicago Press. "It is extremely unlikely that her theory is seriously wrong. Her arguments are quite convincing...