Word: consciously
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...less than honest moments.) Its work has become a go-to resource for bloggers, mainstream media and the candidates' themselves. So is this campaign less honest? TIME talked to FactCheck.org director Brooks Jackson. You have skewered both presidential campaigns for exaggerations and outright lies. Do you make a conscious effort to analyze both campaigns equally? We certainly give them equal scrutiny. We're looking at everything that comes out of those campaigns in terms of TV advertising, debates, major interviews, major speeches. We do not ever try to balance a criticism of one candidate with a criticism of another...
...even during turbulent times. This additional funding not only represents hard work on the student end, but it also serves as a ringing endorsement of new Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds. Making a difference in the day-to-day lives of students requires that a dean make conscious and sizeable decisions instead of passing the buck. For taking student concerns seriously and acting upon proposals instead of pushing them from one committee to another, Hammonds should be commended...
Most parents, of course, know this instinctively. Still, it's useful to learn that teenage behavior is not just a matter of willful pigheadedness or determination to drive you crazy - though these, too, can be factors. "There's a debate over how much conscious control kids have," says Giedd, who has four "teenagers in training" of his own. "You can tell them to shape up or ship out, but making mistakes is part of how the brain optimally grows." It might be more useful to help them make up for what their brain still lacks by providing structure, organizing their...
...weeks later, I find the woman's father sitting outside the tiny family home atop an escarpment that overlooks Freetown. Holding the newborn baby, he says his daughter gave birth at home because "the terrain is too rough to reach the hospital." By the time he carried her, half conscious, down the slope to the hospital, she was too sick to be saved. Even for women who give birth in a hospital, survival is no sure thing. Another woman, 20, was admitted in late July in early labor and began having seizures hours after giving birth. Through the night...
Your self-confidence is almost intimidating. Do you make a conscious effort to project it, or does it come naturally? -Mauricio Beltran, ChicagoWell, that's not naturally who I am, you know. I understand what you're saying, but I don't think all the films I've made have been that way. The ones that I made that were more vulnerable, people never...