Word: approached
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Humphreys advocated the "two-model approach" to education, one that would incorporate multiple theories regarding the origin of life, while Alters argued that creation and evolution should not be on equal footing...
...will require international leadership, leadership of a perhaps reformed Security Council, and the mature leadership of the United States," she said. "Leadership that is not just responding to polls, but forward-looking and global in approach...
Kindergarten's new emphasis on reading and math conflicts with the "developmental" model: helping children with story comprehension before teaching them to read, and letting them discover math concepts in a tactile way, with sets of objects. But many parents like the speeded-up approach because reading and math skills offer tangible evidence of what their children are learning...
...This approach is even more egregious in New York, which renders a hard-core town as easy listening. Besides the trademark pans of photographs and prints, Ric Burns uses copious aerial shots of the city, glimmering, filled with butterscotchy light--but lifeless. Through seemingly Vaselined lenses, however, a picture emerges from both these works of the long, fruitful tension between evangelical idealism and secular mercantilism. Ken and Ric Burns have managed to sing America. If only they wouldn't sing it to sleep...
...that stalk, or stover, that every corn plant grows along with its kernels. Scientists at Monsanto and Heartland Fiber are working toward engineering corn plants with the kind of fiber content that paper companies would find attractive. So long as the genetic tinkering poses no ecological threat, that approach could tap into a huge stream of agricultural waste, turning some of it into an industrial ingredient...