Word: comprehend
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...fall of 2003, none of that seemed possible. A crash with another skater in a corner of the Olympic Oval in Calgary left Klassen with a horrific gash in her forearm. Lying on the ice in shock, Klassen didn't fully comprehend her predicament until she began to read the expressions on the faces of the skaters and coaches surrounding her. A blade had severed tendons, an ulnar nerve and, most dangerously, a major artery...
...implored, “If you feel angry with the way the world is, you need to hear Raymond Lotta.” I am angry with the way the world is—specifically with how a rather sizable religious tradition doesn’t seem even to comprehend the notion of free expression—but somehow I don’t think that’s what the poster is referring to.All these events, altogether typical and expected in a Harvard context, bespeak an ironic myopia with America. Ironic, because the more important and less understood object...
...British Prime Minister Chamberlain as a symbol of “peace in our time.” However, a fallacy lies beneath this analogy: where ambiguous art is celebrated, countries with vague intentions certainly are not. The Islamic Republic of Iran is an actor that seems not to comprehend this impossibility. Its flirtatious relationship with nuclear proliferation has the dialectic of a Greek tragedy, and it might end as one worthy of Aeschylus, with extreme violence...
...built their public lives on the notion of understanding the American people are growing out of touch with the social spread of this disease.This lack of understanding of AIDS is what makes it so unsolvable. Its dual nature as both a scientific and societal problem makes it difficult to comprehend on all of its fronts. Those who deal with the proteins and reverse transcriptase are at a loss for how to manage the societal problems that make places such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia veritable breeding grounds for HIV. At the same time, the people who manage...
...saving their lives. I give a lecture each year in which I describe what happens in a major city after a natural disaster. My students who were in New York on that terrible day have told me that what they learned in that lecture helped them to comprehend the chaos around them and escape to safety.”(UNDE)FINED ARTSIt is a lesson too few students had the opportunity to learn. Only six of the 104 VES concentrators have their focus in Environmental Studies. This is at least partially due to the insufficient promotion from the Administration.The Faculty...