Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...socially, women are still objects that do not command the same respect as men. And as long as images of women as sex symbols continue to feature prominently on billboards, in magazines, on television and maybe even in men's minds, females will remain objects. Our society--politically correct and liberal as it claims to be--shows little inclination to mend its ways...
...choice are all of the questions that we began with in trying to determine the probability of the extraterrestrial life. Aczel gives no convincing reason why we should choose one in a trillion as our base probability, and we really have no way of knowing whether his number is correct even to a few orders of magnitude. With so many uncertainties involved, Aczel's statistical argument is attractive, but it does not warrant his unqualified conclusion that, "The probability of extraterrestrial life is 1.00, or a number that for all purposes is 1.00. We are not alone...
...existence of extraterrestrial life, it is, in essence, simply a mathematical restatement of Ellie's comment in Contact--"The Universe is a pretty big place...so if it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space." The argument makes sense. It's conclusion is probably even correct. But Aczel's calculation does not answer any of the key questions that have existed, and that continue to exist, in the search for extraterrestrial life...
...advisory committee's proposal is also designed to correct an outdated assumption about retirement savings...
...renovation plans also include exterior improvements to the museums to "present a better face to Cambridge" and "to correct the tendency of Harvard to present its backdoor to the community," he said...