There's the team that represents civilization, and there's the team that represents terrorism.
(Blount should take Don Imus's old slot; he'd certainly be more sensitive when talking about a women's basketball team. But civilization and sensitivity probably aren't good for ratings).
By fleeing the magnetic interference common to civilization, a team at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Aachen University has devised a low-tech version of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy that can outperform multimillion-dollar lab instruments.
Additionally, each civilization provides an individual team bonus in team games.
In the austral summer of 2005-06, I spent nearly five months as a member of Bill Fraser's birding team at Palmer Station, a scrap of civilization grafted onto a rocky spit of land.
A GENERATION or two ago, in the cartoonish television action series "The A-Team," Bosco Albert Baracus clomped along the edge of civilization like Sasquatch, half-man, half-myth.
In the interests of science, civilization, and good order, an élite team of veterinarians in Athens, Georgia, keeps tabs on the hogs.
"Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work," he bellowed.
Coach Vince Lombardi, the Green Bay Packers icon, defined the central trait of great coaching and formidable teams: "Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work".
Fearon and Laitin and their colleagues argue that in the real world people choose to join not one side of a great clash of civilizations but what looks like the winning team in their village.
