Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anthropic Principle states that 'if the universe weren't suitable for life, we would not ask why in the first place." Although many physicists dismiss the Anthropic Principle as groundless, Hawking defended it as necessary to understand that models of the universe are shaped by our human limitations...
...quote from old episodes of "The Simpsons" because they offer so much wisdom wrapped in so much wackiness. And today I'd like to quote from them to illustrate how great the show once was, and to ask why it has become so trifling by comparison...
Bradley also found a way to play an active role in his stepdaughter's life. He and St. Onge, both night owls, would stay up late after Ernestine had retired at 10 p.m. Bradley would read as St. Onge did her homework, and sometimes she would ask him questions. "He'd give these elaborate, wonderful 'I-was-there' kind of answers," she recalls. Once, when she was studying Vietnam, he brought out textiles from there, which she used to help illustrate her report...
...Gore feeling these days? Never better, if you ask anyone inside his campaign--pumped, working without notes, even taking his jacket off. And those polls, the ones showing the Vice President suddenly running slightly behind Bill Bradley in New Hampshire and in a dead heat with him in New York, or suggesting Bradley is the better at beating George W. Bush? Not to worry. As the glum figures rolled in earlier this month, Gore told a top adviser, "I'm connecting. I feel it. We just gotta keep doing what we're doing...
...from dead. Disenchanted with modern society, many rural Chinese are reverting to traditional beliefs. Ancestor halls and temples have sprung up around the countryside. "Life in the villages again revolves around the temple, where people go to ask for things," says Fava. If Beijing cannot come up with responses to their questions, the gods will win out. For Mei Ying, the answers come from Mazu...