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...still. There is reason neither for veneration nor trepidation. But why stop there? We should not be afraid to question their conclusions, especially on issues that affect all of us, such as climate change or embryonic stem cells, yet we should be able to do so in an informed way??we should not dismiss these same conclusions just because of an instinctive fear of not understanding where they came from. The best-case scenario, of course, would be a scientifically informed public. Scientists are misunderstood partly because of the manner in which science is presented to the masses...
...Lady is much less enchanting than that. She is a retread of a retread, in a way??a cross between Milla Jovovich’s naively gorgeous goddess in “The Fifth Element” and a cherubic elf from “The Lord of the Rings.” Although this was my first close encounter with Howard, she didn’t awaken me from anything...
...accomplishment is used as an example of some broader breaking of barriers, it implicitly circumscribes her achievement within the confines of gender. She is important as a woman before she is important as an individual. The idea of a “role” is strange in that way??it literally means representing something else beyond oneself. And so appropriating actions by individuals as exemplars of some broader change in women’s roles can take away from the personal agency and uniqueness of those women.When I graduate tomorrow, I’d like...
...lease” them. What is needed is a collaborative effort between Amtrak and the freight railroads to expand and add capacity to the existing system so that Amtrak trains don’t have to wait around for freight trains to get out of their way??the single most important reason why Amtrak’s on time performance on some of its long distance routes isn’t what it should...
Noah may have built an arc, but one Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) concentrator is going about flood preparation in a different way??she has designed a line of water-friendly garb. Jane H. Van Cleef ’06 opened a store in Inman Square earlier this month to sell 14 different styles of clothes and accessories for her VES senior thesis. The clothing store, which she has dubbed the Climate Change Preparedness Center, sells items designed for “a swampy more aquatic-oriented future,” according to Van Cleef. The store?...