Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book's unifying idea, "information" is deeply ambiguous, which is one of its attractions for rigorous thinkers who like to venture into uncharted but fertile territory. Science has become fascinated in recent years with the origin and maintenance of order, whether physical, biological or social. Information is regularly used as the measure of this order, as it constantly struggles against the randomness, or entropy, threatening to tear it apart...
...life and work of Harvard's own E.O. Wilson, expert in insect communication and sometime "father of sociobiology," leads Wright to investigate biology. Finally, attention shifts to the role of information in the social sciences and the work of economist and systems-theorist Kenneth Boulding...
...keep to their portion of the park. When the club intends to use the University's portion of the garden, it reserves the space through Epps' office. The dean says the club sometimes reserves the garden in an individual's name and, when the garden is used for annual social functions, sometimes in the name of the organization...
Schkolnick and her lawyer have claimed that the case falls under Massachusetts public accommodations law because it is an important part of life at Harvard, not an exclusive social group with which few students are involved. And they point to the garden as evidence of the Fly Club's continued ties to the University...
...literary figure in Egypt in the late '40s and '50s, Naguib Mahfouz is the first Arab language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature in the 87-year history of the award. His works are known throughout the Middle East for their vivid descriptions and insights about turbulent social change in postwar Egypt, according to Harvard experts on Arabic literature...