Word: aspects
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...several states considering the legislation took out provisions making refusal to be vaccinated a misdemeanor. Gay activists feared that the bill might permit states to quarantine people who have HIV or AIDS. The CDC responded by narrowing its definition of a public-health emergency. But the most crucial aspect of the bill--the ability to quarantine citizens who may pose a health threat to others--is the one that has become the most contentious, pitting public-health officials in a state-by-state battle with civil libertarians. Existing law typically forces state authorities to get a court order before putting...
Germer began meeting with Schlecht and reading religious texts by authors like C.S. Lewis and Simone Weil. “I was really hungering for a spiritual aspect of my life,” she says. “Because I’d been studying it. And I liked watching it in other people…I just didn’t know if I could get past my belief that the knowledge of God is really beyond human understanding...
Outfielder Ashley Augustine exemplifies the team commitment of her class. An accomplished swimmer in high school—a four time All-State Team selection—Ashley decided to narrow her focus to softball because she enjoyed the team aspect of it more than that of swimming...
...surroundings and bad blood all add to Sage’s disadvantages and concurrently to her ability to overcome them. But Sage asserts the bad blood element too heavily. Its repeated appearance in the prose reminds the reader of its horrid B-rated title. Those words add a laughable aspect to serious moments of revelation...
...worst humanity has to offer. On the side of brutality are the thugs who beat up the monster in a back alley, and on the side of greed, there is the government researcher who tortures the monster in a mad quest for grant money. Representing the more noble aspect of humanity, there is of course Beatrice, as well as Dr. Arto, a physicist and musician bedazzled by the rhythms of the universe and endowed with the power to destroy the monster. (You’ve seen these bad scientist/ good scientist types before, consider E.T. and A Beautiful Mind, respectively...