Born in New York City, lived here all of my life. First eleven years were spent in this building in the South Bronx:
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On September 11th, 2001 I was about four miles away from these two buildings:
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I still work about three city blocks away from this one:
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On September 11th, 2001 I was about four miles away from these two buildings:
I still work about three city blocks away from this one:
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
