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...frustrated by your easy dismissal of French philosopher Rene Descartes's theory of mind-body dualism. This brilliant man did not contend that the mind had no influence on the body, or the body on the mind. In letters to friends who were ill, he urged them to keep objects that they liked around them to raise their spirits. His argument held that the mind was simply a different substance from the body. Even as scientists identify the various electronic and chemical signals of the brain, they cannot say with certainty how the signals function. Descartes's theory...
Although some critics contend that Silber couldnever bring liberals back into the fold, Rooseveltdiscounted any further internal strife that mightresult from his appointment as chair...
...when Bush declared that his patience had run out and judged the inspections a failure, even before the U.N. received its first formal report. "This business about more time, how much time do we need," said the President, "to see clearly that [Saddam's] not disarming?" Yet the French contend the simple presence of inspectors has effectively frozen Saddam's programs and that kind of containment is better than...
...degrees higher than today. Scientists still do not know precisely what caused the warming or how Antarctica responded. One group argues that during this time significant expanses of the White Continent were not merely ice free but covered with low-lying, tundra-type vegetation. But Marchant and his colleagues contend that the vast ice sheet that covers the Antarctic plateau rode out the temperature rise unperturbed...
...seems especially anxious to avoid a reprise of those controversies. In an unusual move, LES has asked for a greenlight from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission without the usual public comment on various environmental, safety and security issues. But groups like the Sierra Club and the National Resources Defense Council contend that this will simply, "reduce the . . . licensing procedure to a flimsy rubber stamp." LES plans to file its 3,000 page license application with the federal government by January 30, to be followed by a review process that could take at least a year...