Word: alterations
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...demanding and disciplined work on some of the important problems of our society." Stirring words, meant to refute conservatives' accusations that liberals prefer hand-outs to self help. But this joint venture of rich and poor, white and black for a year or two of their lives will not alter economic inequities; liberals have again overestimated the efficiency of government programs...
...anti-Semitism that was admired, studied and perfected by an Austrian named Adolf Hitler. The powerful impulses sent out from turn-of-the-century Vienna have made it difficult to imagine the place as it actually was, to sense how and why people converged there in ways that would alter the world. In Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Historian Carl E. Schorske gives the city back to itself. The book's seven related essays carefully reconstruct a Vienna of bricks and beliefs, a real place building toward a surreal destiny...
...half of the 20th century as an especially rich period of scientific discovery, but they may also recognize it to have been the time when public attitudes toward science began taking a turn for the worse. To combat the continuation of this latter trend, the institution of science must alter its practitioners spend some time sharing knowledge with the public in an understandable manner. In the event this not be done--in the event that scientists maintain their currently elite posture--then evolution will take its course. Whatever small efforts now exist to inform the public will continue to deteriorate...