Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fifth century Greek physician Hippocrates, considered the father of Western medicine, was the first to suggest this possibility. Hippocrates believed deeply in the healing power of nature. A strong advocate of the restorative powers of natural herbs, he once wrote, "Nature is the physician of diseases." This historical context attests to the long-term appeal alternative medical theory has had even to traditional biomedicine...
...inter-connected lives. But the one real treat was the cat fight scene. There's nothing like a good thrashing, because it's everything all rolled into one. Someone goes home crying and usually nobody dies. Can it get any better? Maybe if it's not in the context of male fantasy culture, but that's just a suggestion. --Shatema A. Threadcraft...
...broader context includes more than thediversity inherent to a liberal arts curriculum.One of the most important components of musicalperformance is, after all, the audience. "Hereyour audience is as broad and deep as you couldhope for--and refreshingly young. The sounds youmake will hit your audience in a thousanddifferent ways. Could you hope for as much withthe better informed but narrower spectrum oflisteners in any musical establishment?" asks Kim.Exposure to personal diversity is one advantageHarvard holds over any conservatory's studentbody. Salvage delineates this advantageous linkbetween audience and musician, saying, "Peoplehere are fascinating and driven. So many know somuch about...
Curll said admissions officers spend more time looking at the non-quantifiable aspects of an application, which she classified as character, commitment and context, than on the numbers...
...sometimes been seen as hardly more than a work unit in some impersonal equation. A "small number" were killed, Mao once said of the death of 70,000, and in his Great Leap Forward, at least 20 million more were sacrificed to a leader's theories. In that context, the man before the tank seems almost a counter-Mao, daring to act as the common-man hero tirelessly promoted by propaganda and serving as a rebuke--or asterisk, at least--to the leaders and revolutionaries who share these pages...