Word: stephen
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Another professor, Stephen J. Gould, who teaches a perennial favorite Core course Science B-16, has put xeroxed excerpts of his works on reserve to give students free access...
...Black South Africans understandably lose faith in the effectiveness of the non-violent philosophies of Boesak, Tutu and the rest, younger activists like Stephen Tshewete are gaining greater followings. A former prisoner who has urged that township unrest be brought into white areas, Tshewete's impassioned pleas are becoming increasingly popular. If moderates who want peaceful change are being thrown in jail, youths are saying to themselves, why should they continue to limit their tactics...
...Stephen Charles Carey...
...this particular gala also had its grim side. Alternating with the show- biz stars were people like Helen Kushnick, a Beverly Hills mother who lost her three-year-old son Sammy in 1983 to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, the deadly disease known as AIDS, and the Rev. Stephen Pieters, a minister with the North Hollywood Metropolitan Community Church, who has suffered from AIDS since 1984. The message from President Reagan, who had made his first public mention of the widely feared and often stigmatizing illness at a press conference two evenings earlier, also concerned the scourge of AIDS. Read by Actor...
...essays of Stephen Jay Gould are good antidotes. In his fourth collection, the paleontologist, evo- lutionary biologist and Harvard lecturer continues to combine precision with an energetic style. On the ever-hypnotic copulatory practices of the praying mantis, for example: "The male, blessed with paired organs for transferring sperm, inserts one palp, then, if not yet attacked by the female, the other. Hungry females may then gobble up their mates, completing the double-entendre of a consummation devoutly to be wished...