Word: abstraction
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...have to make my bed?' It's proof of their cognitive maturity, and it's all good." Sadly, this cognitive development isn't well supported by the middle school curriculum either, according to several studies. "It doesn't help students see the bigger picture or to understand abstract concepts," says Juvonen...
...quakes and analysis of underground rock formations, he explained why certain spots in active seismic areas, including those far away from the epicenter, are hit harder than others. His work influenced legislation in California, and he was consulted on construction projects from Egypt to Alaska. died. al held, 76, abstract painter and Yale University professor known for his gigantic geometrical pieces; near Camerata, Italy. After making his mark in the 1960s and '70s with a series of orderly, stylistic, mural-sized black-and-white works featuring cubes and pyramids that appeared to be floating, he painted dizzying grids and spheres...
DIED. AL HELD, 76, abstract painter and Yale University professor known for his gigantic geometrical pieces; near Camerata, Italy. After making his mark in the 1960s and '70s with a series of orderly, stylized, mural-size black-and-white works featuring cubes and pyramids that appeared to be floating, he painted dizzying grids and spheres in eye-popping colors. Describing the theme of much of his work, he said, "We're not going to get rid of chaos and complexity ... But we can find a way to live with them...
...narrower and more case specific than those of her fellow Justices, her reasoning less sweeping and ideological. "She was the court's leading minimalist," says Cass Sunstein, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, "taking one case at a time, distrusting broad rules and abstract theories...
...noise is. For the nearness of power too. Merely the thought of the two big bosses sitting knee to knee, tossing the world's well-being back and forth, is enough to thump the journalistic heart. Back in Reykjavík, in that stout symmetrical house by the water, an abstract enmity is reduced to two men talking together. A rare real moment in the bipolar war of nerves, well worth writing home about. And still: What am I doing here...