Word: aims
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Laboratory for Asian Innovation "Asia's Great Science Experiment" [Oct. 30] reported that Asian countries, especially Japan, are newly enamored with the wonders of science. Scientific innovations have great ability to untangle the painful complexities of human life. But it seems that's not researchers' primary aim. Instead of pursuing humanitarian goals, science has become a tool for maintaining the rapid tempo of business globalization. In countries like India, scientific research has a vast but untapped potential for raising the living standards of the lower classes. Asian scientists, however, see the Indian marketplace as a battleground for big brands, which...
...defend ourselves because we are not ready to be colonized again by any sort of troops in the world." Without those peacekeepers, however, the two sides seem destined to clash. A face-off would surely drag Ethiopia and Eritrea into a proxy--if not outright--war. The Islamists' stated aim to unite all of Somalia is believed to include the secular breakaway territories of Puntland and Somaliland, as well as portions of Kenya and Ethiopia. Once fighting has begun, there's little to prevent Somalia from becoming a conflict that could engulf the Horn of Africa, cause horrific loss...
...definite big brother-little brother dynamic to Harvard-Yale this year. Over the past half-decade, Harvard has been the kind of older sibling that won’t let the younger win. Dawson is the legend riding off into the sunset; McLeod is the young challenger taking aim at his new record two years down the line. Polhemus is a talented and mobile (and scandal-touched) junior signal-caller like O’Hagan, but lags behind the Crimson starter in big-game polish. Harvard head coach Tim Murphy and Bulldogs skipper Jack Siedlecki, assistants together at Lafayette...
...builders must have chosen its imposing site deliberately, say guides Mary Baker and Maria Rocke, co-founders of Archaeotours. Supplying a running commentary and picnic lunch, they take small parties around South Wales' many historic sites by car, van or foot. The duo met as archaeology college students, and aim to prove there's "more to Wales than leeks, hats and choirs," says Baker. They took me on a typical trip that led from ancient tombs like Carreg Samson near Fishguard, pictured, to medieval Dryslwyn Castle in Camarthenshire. The Welsh landscape has a spiritual vibe that has survived changes...
Stranger Than Fiction has a surer aim at getting through the brain to the heart. Zack Helm's script imagines a decent, solitary fellow named Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), then springs the notion that he may well be a fiction--a character in a work in progress by reclusive novelist Karen (Kay) Eiffel (Emma Thompson). And when Kay figures out how to kill off the character, Harold will...