Word: belief
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...community is deliberately built upon the intersection of diverse cultures, social practices, and worldviews. Each of us is a minority of one, bringing a unique set of legacies, customs, traditions, and beliefs. Our environment affords us the opportunity to gain knowledge and to experience the proverbial ocean beyond the pond through meaningful interactions with each other. It is these interactions that serve to give nuance to our understanding of the world and allow us to appreciate the points of view of others, albeit not necessarily agree with them. To glean the most from this invaluable opportunity, we must be willing...
...nothing ignoble when they realize that their idealism cannot sustain the sacrifices they are called upon to make. What is ignoble is the failure of the military to live up to its end of the bargain and the way the institution exploits their good faith and their innocent belief in a system that does not believe in them. As a nation, we owe them more than they owe us - as this painfully necessary and heartfelt movie makes abundantly clear...
...itself. The U.S. had its Whitman and Thoreau; China has Jiang, wandering the huge grassy expanses and singing of primordial elements - blood, death, soil - to which the nation is no longer attuned. "The heat caused by Wolf Totem ... is a symptom of Chinese people's collective depletion of spiritual belief," wrote critic Zhang Hong in the highbrow Wenhui Readers' Weekly. "The book is like a stimulant injected into the decadent contemporary spirit that allows people to fantasize about becoming aggressive and successful." Fittingly, those are the very qualities demanded by the new society evolving from China's economic boom...
Huffnagle's research also suggests that the bacteria can battle numerous kinds of allergies--and not just food allergies. This is a somewhat harder scientific case to make, but Huffnagle's belief is that since anything you breathe you may also swallow in at least some quantity, the good bacteria in your gut could help control allergens...
...McCain's campaign spokesman, in an e-mail. His position in favor of Ergen, aides say, was nothing other than an effort to bring more competition to cable providers, to lower prices for consumers. Likewise, his opposition to FCC ownership caps for television stations resulted from a long-standing belief that technological changes had made the old laws obsolete...