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...stylish transport includes radio, air conditioning, more comfortable seating and large-panel windows. (Though temperatures hovered in the mid-70s yesterday, the driver did not turn on the air conditioning system.) Students may also enjoy somewhat greater carrying capacity-especially important during peak traffic hours around...
...databases improve, Oxford Ancestors will be able to fill in the somewhat sketchier information for non-Europeans, for whom at least 30 further mitochondrial clans have been identified. In Africa, where human genetic variation is the highest, there are thought to be 14 of them. The noncombining elements of our genetic makeup strongly point to common ancestors there for all humans. Genealogy can't go any deeper than that...
Even when he is writing about relatively fantastic subjects, like spirit possession in sheep, Murakami's sensibility is that of the skeptical realist. His narrator is inevitably everyman, contemporary Tokyo edition - a thirtyish urban male in a low-key, white-collar job, a somewhat passive fellow who doesn't expect much out of life and takes what comes with jaded equanimity. Like the narrators of Raymond Carver's stories - Murakami is Carver's translator - they are unremarkable men, less driven by the ethic to succeed and less enmeshed in the powerful webs of family and business and community than most...
...group was a somewhat controversial choice, with the council originally considering giving the job to popular campus personality B.J. Averell...
...fact that in two months’ time, Harvard will have a new president and a new administration. President-elect Lawrence H. Summers has never publicly expressed his views on a living wage at Harvard, and the protesters’ efforts to sway the current administration are handicapped somewhat by Rudenstine’s status as a lame-duck president. The Rudenstine administration is no doubt hesitant to saddle its successor with a decision, and Summers’ views on the subject will make the current discussion almost moot come July. Summers should therefore take the opportunity afforded by this...