Word: behaviorism
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Curiously, this does not seem to me a huge defect. For one thing, even when people live under the worst forms of totalitarianism, ordinary life somehow proceeds. They get married, they have babies, they work at their jobs, they grouse about the nutsy behavior of their friends and relatives. But perhaps more important, Caramel (the title derives from the name of the preparation used for leg-waxing in the salon) testifies to the power of American popular culture at least briefly to override the endless traumas of our ever-more-violent political lives. Even Anne Frank filled a scrapbook with...
...vital statistics of an elephant, but not the vital statistics of the people who lived with an elephant," says Lewis, whose work is sponsored by the Wildlife Conservation Society. "Once you really begin to know what they're up against, you can really begin to understand [their behavior]." And once you understand that behavior, Lewis continues, you can change...
...Although the document is a “working draft” and not officially in the College’s Handbook for Students—which outlines guidelines for student behavior at the College—Nelson, the associate dean, said that the purpose of the policy is to clarify the legal ramifications for both the students and the administration...
...AIDS, and that even the potential success of prophylactic antiretroviral drugs is only one arrow in the medical quiver. "There are all kinds of variables," Greene cautions, including drug-resistance issues, evolving viruses, individual patterns of infection and complications due to other diseases like herpes, not to mention human behavior and cultural traditions that can interfere with prevention and treatment...
...current debate is virtually all about tax cuts. Republicans want them to go to business. Democrats want them to go to the poor and middle class. Both parties are fond of tax credits for approved interest groups and favored forms of behavior. The notion that the government is good for anything except issuing checks and printing money has just about disappeared...