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Krause says he does not spend much time engaged in such speculation. At the moment, he and his colleagues are preoccupied with sequencing the Denisova hominin's nuclear genome. Using high-tech lab equipment and supercomputers, they are trying to make sense of this strange and startling discovery, in much the same way that their ancestors might have done tens of thousands of years ago, when they peered out into a windswept Siberian clearing and saw creatures at once familiar and foreign moving through the snow...
...Trust and comfort in relationships translate onto the field,” Nichols stresses. “A healthier team community will open up doors for success. Mostly, I’ll remember and value this trip not so much for Italy, but because I got to spend it with my friends...
...Merkel has so far been unmoved. She says that Greece, which has enacted stiff austerity measures to slash its budget deficit, does not need an influx of outside money yet. She is backed by the German public, which is reluctant to spend its hard-earned cash bailing out a country it sees as reckless, feckless and even corrupt...
...their processes are polar opposites. McPhee starts with a detailed discussion of a topic, be it “eccentric food” or Europe’s chalk country, and allows his topic to elucidate a truism about society with such finesse that it seems accidental. Rather than spend pages reveling in the significance of what he has found—like Gladwell—the most poignant insights are sown unassumingly amid expository passages, leaving the patient reader to experience the joy of discovery that McPhee must have felt during his research...
Right now we are going through a technological age, which is helping art because it’s so visual. We need to spend much more time increasing visual literacy, so that when you see a symbol you understand what it means. The younger generation is getting flooded with images, and they aren’t given the tools to understand them...