Word: conceptive
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...also costs money to take the objects out of Indian country and will cost much more to put them back. Ironically, native American science, literature, medicine, philosophy, legal institutions, governing structures and art are by and large excluded from the academic curriculum at Harvard University. The mathematical concept of zero, for instance, originated in Mayan cultures, as did sophisticated medical practices; native astronomy (including native Hawaiian astronomy) has been extremely sophisticated, as are our architectural and artistic traditions...
...revival renews a question that was never settled: Does it work? The Law of Similars sounds something like modern medicine's concept of immunization, but scientists point out that the resemblance is superficial. For the Law of Infinitesimals they have nothing but scorn. The high number of dilutions--marked on packages as 12X, 24X and so on--ensures that not enough active ingredient is left to do any harm. But it also ensures that not enough is left to do any good. Consumer Reports in July examined homeopathic treatments for vaginal yeast infections, noting that the 28X dilution means that...
...thinking machines, keen on contemporary social issues but able to make his interests drive book and ticket sales. That pejorative expression that has so much currency--"obviously written with a movie in mind"--requires qualification when applied to Crichton. "I think of Michael as the high priest of high concept," says Spielberg. All right, concept: Island. Theme park. Dinosaurs. Adults swallowed whole. Kids in peril. Easy. But who said the author had to give us the history of computers along with it? And chaos theory? Fractal vs. Euclidean geometry? And the workings of a Stegosaurus gizzard? And dna? So much...
They bicker and bond--a wise, weary detective (Morgan Freeman) in his last week before retirement and an eager kid (Brad Pitt) fresh from the country and ready to kick some big-city butt. Police partnerships don't come any lower concept than this. On the other hand, the serial killer they are pursuing, a creepy, brainy religious fanatic played by Kevin Spacey, is a high-concept kind of guy: he's trying to commit seven murders in seven days, each of them supposed to illustrate one of the seven deadly sins in some preposterously stomach-churning...
...also a selling point. Last year Kennedy and partner Michael J. Berman, both editorial novices, brought their "postpartisan" concept to Hachette Filipacchi, a publishing company whose executives were impressed enough to sink $20 million into the enterprise. Since then, George has been stirring the same sort of buzz among journalists that Waterworld generated in Hollywood: a golden boy--maybe not the brightest fellow in town--seemed to be in way over his head on a slightly nutty project, and a delicious disaster was probably in the offing...