Word: conceptions
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Although home swappers often become such fans of the practice that they have a hard time paying for a hotel, the concept may sound dicey to the uninitiated. What about theft? Damage? Reasonable causes for concern, but equally unlikely. "Nobody is going to fly across the ocean or drive 600 miles to come steal your flat-screen TV," says Tony DiCaprio, president of 1stHomeExchange.com a four-year-old site that has seen membership increase 30% this year. Remember, he notes, "at the same time they're staying in your home, you are staying in their home...
...many people, the concept of a legalized market for human organs is repugnant. "Payments eventually result in the exploitation of the individual," Francis Delmonico, a Harvard University professor, told the Wall Street Journal in 2007. "It's the poor person who sells." But Matas disagrees, noting that compensating kidney donors is no different from sanctioning sales of other body parts. "People get paid to be surrogate mothers. People get paid for sperm and hair," he says. "People say, 'Oh, those are safe and replenishable, but egg donation and surrogacy are risky, and yet they're legal.'" A legal market...
...Disorderly conduct is a fluid concept," says Tom Nolan, a criminal justice professor at Boston University who spent 27 years in uniform at the Boston Police Department. "Unlike a lot of other crimes, this really calls for the use of discretion in a way that armed robbery or more serious felony crime doesn't. The less serious a crime, the more officer discretion you use," he says, adding "discretion is judgment that we hope is based on wisdom, experience and training...
...other places beyond the racetrack. We adopt it intuitively when we're carrying a heavy load and find ourselves maintaining an even, almost level gait, thus reducing the up and down motion that makes a bundle seem to weigh more on every downward bounce. Spence suggests that the same concept could be applied to improve the performance of artificial legs. "It's not crazy to say you'd be able to use this to build better prosthetic limbs for people. If you're trying to build a prosthetic limb to handle a bumpy environment, this should help," he says...
...Still, grim as the prospects for achieving agreement under the circumstances may be, the Obama Administration is all too aware that time is running out for the two-state solution. Populations on both sides of the divide have lost faith in the concept, but while Israelis are largely content to live with the status quo, Palestinians are not - and they are losing faith in the path of negotiations. The expansion of the Israeli presence in East Jerusalem and the West Bank in recent years has eroded faith in the prospects for a territorially viable Palestinian state; the idea of resolving...