Word: constructively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gather round, children; it's time once again to talk about that famous construct of the twentieth century, the military-industrial complex. Sadly, the complex is ruling our lives more than that of Oedipus or Electra at a time when we need it least. When the president and ex-president both proudly call our nation the only superpower, why do we need a defense-dominated economy...
Appleyard would lay the woes of the 20th century at Stephen Hawking's wheelchair. Commenting on Hawking's oft-expressed hope that physicists may soon construct a theory that would unite all the forces of nature into one mathematical equation suitable for a T shirt, a so-called theory of everything, he declaims alarmingly that it could be used to predict that "a particular snowflake would fall on a particular blade of grass or that you would be reading this now." Never mind that such deterministic ambitions died long ago with the discovery of quantum uncertainty. Faced with that prospect...
...free to wake up every morning grateful for the feeling of sunshine on our face or grumpy for the prospect of tomorrow's rain. The fact that science cannot find any purpose to the universe does not mean there is not one. We are free to construct parables for our moral edification out of the law of the jungle, or out of the evolution and interdependence of species. But the parables we choose will only reflect the values we have already decided to enshrine...
...said Harvard police have begun working with the victims, a Harvard student and a Holy Cross student, to construct a composite drawing of the robber...
...world. He asks questions in a variety of forms, which include such topics as identity, friendship, creativity, relationships, and genders. Harris's secret life--his closet. He invites the viewer into this no longer secretive life, and in so doing, demands a close look at the complex interactions which construct an individual...