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...what the store says is an attempt to compensate students for the rebate loss, the Coop is already offering a 10 percent discount on fall textbook purchases. The store has had similar discounts in recent years...
Some Coop members interviewed yesterday said that because of the textbook discount and the small recent rebates, they don't think the loss of rebate will hurt...
Microbes' extraordinary ability to adapt, observes Harvard microbiologist Fields, "is a fact of life. It's written into evolution." Indeed, the end run that many organisms are making around modern antibiotics is a textbook case of Darwin's theory in action (anti-evolutionists, take note). In its simplest form, the theory states that new traits will spontaneously appear in individual members of a given species -- in modern terms, mutations will arise in the organisms' genetic material. Usually the traits will be either useless or debilitating, but once in a while they'll confer a survival advantage, allowing the individual...
...Vietnam War curdled my life in a way that I have yet to fathom. For you, it was 30-odd pages in a textbook in prep school. For me, it was a comprehensive examination of where I stood on my humanity, a sixth final exam, if you will, that comprised all the others and was given in the form of surprise spot quizzes every day of my life...
...range, but his greatest strengths are still his quixotic jokes and ironic turns on everyday life. History of 20th century thought, needless to say, is not Martin's strongest suit. His insights, though cogent and integrated into casual dialogue with obvious mastery of craft, come out of so many textbook summaries and sound too regurgitated to be more creative than didactic. Original characters have always been his fort, and here, again, they are at once brilliant and painfully funny. Will LeBow as the art dealer, Sagot (both real and reputedly a patron of the Lapin Agile), pompous, self-important...