Word: core
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...Told in a staccato beat of bombings, shootings and car chases, it's the story of a time when the young West German democracy, some 30 years after the death of Hitler, was shaken to its core. It was a high drama game of cat and mouse: The terrorists would act and the state would react with laws that many Germans felt curbed civil liberties, helping lift the Baader-Meinhof members to mythical status. It's a uniquely German story, but in the age of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, many of the themes also resonate with American audiences...
...Andrew J. Berry, who teaches a core course called “Understanding Darwinism,” added that it was a remarkable feat for Darwin to have a “simple idea that explains the staggering organic diversity...
...other core issue is that too many people can no longer afford their mortgage. Maybe they took out an adjustable-rate loan that has reset higher, or they lost a job in the slowing economy. If we could stop the cycle of defaults and foreclosures, the thinking goes, we could prevent deeply discounted, bank-sold homes from flooding the market, keep losses from further impairing mortgage-backed securities and preserve property values. That's how we wind up with ideas like paying mortgage servicers to make loans more affordable and changing the bankruptcy code to allow judges to reduce...
...Watchers and smoking-cessation help, gives gift cards to reward proper prenatal care and offers free flu shots each year. Still, in the mid-2000s, about 7% of the company's insured population, including roughly 3,100 employees and their dependents, had diabetes. "We manage risk. That's our core business," says Scott Boyd, Amica's director of compensation and benefits. But diabetes-related claims from Amica employees had doubled in four years. "We thought, O.K.," Boyd says now, "we have to manage these high-risk groups a little better...
...thinking about that final leap: leaving the humanities dating pool forever. No more square glasses. No more jokes about Simone de Beauvoir. The English major who was dating the engineer seemed cheerful. “I think in some ways dating outside the humanities fulfils the purpose of the Core Curriculum,” she told me. I started telling my friends to stop pining for awkward poets and start hanging out in the buildings we usually avoid. Which might or might not explain how I ended up at the Miracle of Science Bar & Grill. I was sitting across from...