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...considered, do you believe Darwin was a great luminary in the path of human progress? What has the theory of evolution done for the practical benefit of humanity? It's helped our understanding of ourselves, yet compared to, say, the discovery of penicillin or the invention of the World Wide Web, I wonder why Darwin occupies this position at the pinnacle of esteem. I can only imagine he has been put there by a vast public relations exercise...
...They were unbelievably limited in terms of resources,” Dudnik said of the researchers in the war-torn African nation. Starting at Harvard Medical School only reinforced how wide the gulf was between a lab in Cambridge and one in Cote D’Ivoire...
...Chris Lorditch, the junior wide-receiver who caught the game-winning touchdown, it was his belief in Winters’s ability that made him confident that if he beat his man that the play was going to work...
With one second remaining, Van Nest had the ball—and the game—in his hands. But the sophomore’s shot went wide, and Richards grabbed the rebound to control the ball as the clock expired...
...penetrate would require reform not just of the bureaucracy but also the police. Local and international human-rights groups have exhaustively documented the crisis in Indian policing, criticizing the Indian police for everything from taking bribes to engaging in torture and extrajudicial killing. Eight national commissions have also recommended wide-ranging police reforms, few of which have been implemented...