Word: comprehendingly
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...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...
Both members of the gay community and Republicans—many of whom cannot comprehend how a member of their group could possibly belong to the other—often spurn people like Aguero. “When some people find out I’m gay and conservative,” Aguero says, “they act like I’m a mutant or something...
...hard to comprehend the loss, and as I've come to realize after numerous trips home, television doesn't do it justice. Katrina was no ordinary hurricane, and it will take much more than an ordinary response. According to the American Red Cross, Katrina alone destroyed an estimated 275,000 housing units, nearly 10 times as many as Hurricane Andrew. Five of those homes belonged to my family members...
...European cities as clean, safe, and egalitarian, crime rates in European cities have been skyrocketing for the past decade and have equaled—and in many cases surpassed—those of their American counterparts. Part of the reason that the riots were so difficult for many to comprehend here is that they cut against so many ingrained prejudices and preconceptions about America and Europe. We, and not the Europeans, are supposed to be racist, stagnant, and repressive. We are the ones who supposedly shunt away our unwanted and care only for certain types of citizens...