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...according to Sen, there are ethical imperatives that exist prior to any state, and it is from these imperatives that the concept of human rights draws its strength...
...first drive-in theaters in the country in the 1930s. Redstone had the same scrappiness and a Harvard education, and turned a drive-in into a bustling movie-house company called National Amusements, which grew to 1,200 theaters. He is often credited with inventing the concept of the multiplex. Something of a late bloomer, Redstone didn't hit the big time until 1987, when at age 64 he put virtually all the assets of his company at risk in a bidding war that won Viacom, then a cable company, for $3.4 billion. Ironically, Viacom had been split off from...
Even though graduation stole some of the most talented players in the history of the Ivy League away from the team, the Crimson has made the concept of "rebuilding" seem like a perfect strategy for success...
...easy to understand why. The idea that intelligence is rooted in the genes has long been an inflammatory notion--witness the charges of racism put to Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, authors of The Bell Curve, their controversial study of IQ and race. Beyond that, the very concept of intelligence is slippery. It involves many qualities--some of them elusive, like creativity, others more clear-cut like the ability to solve problems. "This is a very important study," says Eric Kandel, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Columbia University, but he goes on to sound a polite note...
PLAY GAMES For young children, games such as peekaboo and hide-and-seek reinforce the concept that people continue to exist even when they are no longer visible...