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Thomas S. Williamson Jr. '68, who said he will soon be nominated to a position in the Department of Labor, said he believed the unusual upward trend would have to have been caused by bigger factors than race...
Several graduates took exception to Mansfield's statement for statistical reasons. Some said they did not believe the Black population on campus was large enough to put significant upward pressure on grades...
...Floors collapsed onto one another with an impact that caused the ceiling of the PATH station nearby to come crashing down, showering chunks of concrete onto commuters waiting on the platform. In the same moment, the 110-story Twin Towers swayed visibly as the force of the blast shuddered upward. Lobby windows exploded onto the plaza and marble slabs fell from the walls. As fractured steam pipes launched jets of hot mist into the air, the first victims stumbled out of the buildings, bloodied and in shock...
Fires quickly broke out, launching thick, acrid smoke up hundreds of stairwells and elevator banks. In both towers the electricity went out, including emergency backup systems. Even on the highest floors, workers were stunned by the speed at which smoke flew upward. David Deshane, 25, was on the 105th floor when he felt the explosion. "All the computers shut down, then all the phones shut down," he said. "Then all of a sudden we saw smoke ( everywhere." He ran to hit the fire-emergency button. "Nothing happened." In a panic, some people broke windows to admit air, sending daggers...
Complexity theorists believe more sophisticated phenomena follow the same pattern. The stock market can, without outside direction, hum along on an upward course for years and then crash 500 points in a single day. A species can survive for millions of years and then abruptly die out -- or conversely, evolve almost all at once into something entirely new. And self-reproducing organisms can somehow arise, against all odds, from a soup of simple organic chemicals...