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Traditionally, biologists believed that life is a freak--the result of a zillion-to-one accidental concatenation of molecules. It follows that the likelihood of its happening again elsewhere in the cosmos is infinitesimal. This viewpoint derives from the second law of thermodynamics, which predicts that the universe is dying--slowly and inexorably degenerating toward a state of total chaos. Life bucks this trend only because it is a statistical fluke...
...think of someone better suited to the job, due to the extra time he puts in as a mentor and as an advisor," says Associate Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences Albert Gold. "He is Harvard through and through, he has seen the community from almost every viewpoint, and that's a hard combination to duplicate...
...wanted an informal student discussion on affirmative action specifically relating to the minority student viewpoint," said MSA member Julie A. Chang...
...feel that there are a lot of important moral issues that don't get any discussion or token discussion on this campus," said Treasurer Brian E. Malone '96. "And yet we feel that there are a lot of students on this campus who feel differently from the dominant liberal viewpoint, students from religious and traditionally moral backgrounds...
...today's parlance, "multiculturalism" is often associated with the attempt to express the views of ethnic groups who believe their perspectives are unfairly marginalized by existing standards. The call for ethnic studies, for instance, begins with an interest in the role of race in society, but limits its viewpoint to an examination of the experience of certain nonwhite minorities in American society...