Predictably, Derek Bickerton's review (March 1) castigates my most recent book, "Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution". Bickerton's own work follows in the footsteps of Noam Chomsky, whereas my book disputes the central premises of Chomsky's linguistic theories.
Despite a country founded by risk-takers, our schools are the antithesis of American culture bound by arcane rules, operating regardless of outcomes, eschewing creative technologies and managing human resources like spokes in a wheel, without differentiation or reward.
At the time when the 2008 games were awarded to the PRC in 2001, the International Olympic Committee director general spoke of human rights as "a very serious issue" and added: "We are taking the bet that seven years from now we sincerely and dearly hope we shall see many changes".
A second spoke about human dignity as something that "everybody has inside of them" and social dignity as actions aimed at " [cultivating] the idea of it".
The music of Marley--who was one of the greatest musical and social forces of our generation--spoke eloquently of human rights, love of God and the dignity of all mankind.
Almost all spoke of increasing age, human papillomavirus and smoking as important risk factors.
Lise becomes the center of a human wheel, with ribbons as its spokes.
In essence, over millions of years, animals such as humans developed the fewest "spokes," or legs, as the most efficient method for carrying an increasing body weight and height more easily.
If Cep135 were to localize prominently to the tips of cartwheel spokes also during early biogenesis of human centrioles, we would have expected to see this protein in close proximity to Sas-6.
Multiple allegorical interpretations of 2001 have been proposed, including seeing it as a commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical tract Thus Spoke Zarathustra, or as an allegory of human conception, birth and death.
