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While most of the Harvard men's swimming team was cruising through the weakest part of its schedule, yardling aquaman Dave Barnes was representing the United States in an international meet held earlier this month in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
...just another humanist crying out against the inroads of technology. He knows science well enough to be playful about it. He understands that the weakest link in any theory may be the theoretician. His message is not glum but comic: if a perfect machine ever arose, miraculously, from its imperfect builder, no one would trust...
Next came the scientists. G. Brent Dalrymple of the U.S. Geological Survey attacked creation science at its weakest point: the contention that the earth is some 10,000 years old. It is more like 4.5 billion years, said Dalrymple, who scorned the creation contingent as flat-earthers. Francisco Ayala of the University of California at Davis, an ex-priest turned geneticist, ran a brief seminar on amino acids to show that man and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor, but conceded that God could be behind the whole process...
Raymond Donovan, 51, is one of the Cabinet's weakest players, even in the eyes of the White House. "No comment," said a presidential aide when asked about the Labor Secretary. Added a Hill staffer: "He is simply out of his league. He combines not much knowledge of the issues with not much skill in politics...
...that Brandeis is any good; on the contrary, the Judges may be the weakest team--besides St. Anselm's and MIT--the Crimson will face all year. Still, this year's Harvard squad is probably the strongest ever to climb four flights of IAB stairs...