Word: conscious
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After Powell's presentation, fewer Americans made their support for war conditional on U.N. backing. In the TIME/CNN poll, 36% said they would be prepared to send troops to Iraq even if the U.N. opposed it, up from 27% in mid-January. But even so, the Administration is acutely conscious that most Americans polled prefer that any war have the U.N.'s backing...
...seep through. These results have recently been duplicated in another laboratory, and their latest study shows for the first time that when the bbb is breached by albumin, the excitable brain cells that allow us to think, talk and dial mobile phones - namely neurons - may die. Many health-conscious consumers already shop around for the lowest-radiation phones. But they'll get little consolation from the Lund study: the neurons of rats died even when radiation levels were 1,000 times smaller than the current E.U.-allowed level, although the rats were only exposed for two hours...
...deserves is as the year’s most overrated film. Though beautifully shot and populated with a set of unusually complicated characters, Talk to Her shamelessly and outrageously asks its audience to sympathize with a rapist. The film manages, paradoxically, to be both sloppily edited and deadeningly self-conscious. As it progresses, the audience is slowly but surely ushered into a stupor very closely resembling that of the coma victim at the story’s inane center. Talk to Her screens...
...Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) is a virtual Mecca for athletes and fitness gurus alike—Harvard’s Adonis-like men, health-conscious freshman girls and many in between are regular patrons of the MAC’s multiple weight rooms and coveted “Cardio Room.” But when demand for fitness equipment far exceeds the building’s supply, Harvard students can get a little too competitive...
Most important thing you’ve learned at Harvard so far: To be conscious about the assumptions under which I operate...