Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could be God's will." It was partly that hope that prompted the Queen and her children to leave Hussein's hospital and plunge into the emotional crowd of Jordanians keeping vigil outside despite a winter rainstorm. It was, she says, "to offer them some peace, and to ask them to pray...
...behalf of my fellow veterans who can no longer speak, I ask those who back Tran's freedom of expression not to confuse free speech with acts of treason and inciting a riot. The communists are very adept at creating unrest and then using our laws to further their cause. JERRY MAZENKO Garden Grove, Calif...
...like his more peaceable Nells. Goddard's trusting exchanges with German scientists had given Berlin at least a glimpse into what he was designing. What's more, by 1945 he had filed more than 200 patents, all of which were available for inspection. When a captured German scientist was asked about the origin of the V-2, he was said to have responded, "Why don't you ask your own Dr. Goddard? He knows better than any of us." When some V-2s finally made their way to the U.S. and Goddard had a chance to autopsy one, he instantly...
...such a simple shift of perspective, Godel wrought deep magic. The Godelian trick is to imagine studying what might be called "Martian-producible numbers" (those numbers that are in fact theorems in the Martian textbooks), and to ask questions such as, "Is or is not the number 8030974 Martian-producible (M.P., for short)?" This question means, Will the statement '8030974' ever turn up in a Martian textbook...
...than it is today and the social and ethical dilemmas created by the exploitation of new knowledge even more haunting. Our understanding of the world has deepened at an accelerating rate since the beginning of modern science 500 years ago. Our century, for example, has had the wit to ask how the universe is constructed, how even the tiniest particles of matter move and how life manages to exist in the face of all the odds against...