Word: wiredness
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When this seemingly innocuous phrase appeared in Wilson's 1975 book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, it set off alarm bells as surely as ant pheromones trigger the defense mechanisms of a threatened colony. Critics scrambled out of the corners of the academy to attack Wilson's ideas as dangerously deterministic...
After graduating, Souter returned home to Weare, N.H., and took a job at Orr & Reno, a Concord law firm. But he was not happy in private practice. In 1968 he took the turn in the road that would eventually land him in the White House chatting with the President, by...
Television provided Fleck with the chance to escape what he eventually felt were the Revival's constraints. Two years ago, producers of the Lonesome Pine Specials asked him to do a solo show. Bela Fleck and Guests began with the tux-clad banjoist joining the Blair String Quartet in a...
It wired most of the U.S. in little more than a decade and vastly increased the number of TV channels available to the average home. It enticed viewers with movie services like HBO and Showtime, brought in superstations from distant cities and popularized MTV. But the industry responsible for these...
While Princeton's ball-control offense attempted to lull the Crimson defense to sleep, the Harvard long-stickers played like they were wired on No-Doz. Except for a brief second-period lapse, Harvard's defense was ruthless in winning ground balls stuck in the thick Ohiri mud.