Word: distinctives
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...Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature,” taught by political philosopher Sandel and Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton, has attracted more than one follower, with Campbell also expressing interest in the course. Cooper said that he is interested in studying a topic distinct from the focus of his study group. “I think I need to know more about the Middle East,” Cooper said, and plans to attend a course on the history of the Middle East and one on Caribbean literature. Students attending the forum expressed excitement...
Positive psychology, meanwhile, was just starting to gather steam as a distinct field within psychology. Back in the 1950s and ’60s, pioneers like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers had decided that the positive side of human nature was under-represented in psychology, and they wanted to turn their attention instead toward things like self-actualization and happiness. They founded humanistic psychology, but according to Ben-Shahar, the discipline quickly morphed into self-help and pop psychology...
...polis,” a city to which he or she would owe loyalty, but to the universe or the world in a broader sense. The conversation is one above and across cultures—a conversation in which the very idea of essentially distinct cultures cannot be heard over, say, the Iranian shopkeepers of Appiah’s native town of Kumasi in Ghana, any more than it can be heard over a Vietnamese student of classical literature at the Sorbonne...
...squeeze out of the 2006 Civic Si, a sporty version of the basic model, featuring a 197-hp engine, 6-speed manual transmission, rear spoiler and other attributes dear to Gen-Y tire screechers? The basic Civic, after all, is one of the few cars that appeals to two distinct types of drivers: parents and teenage boys. In its basic form, it's a mom-mobile riding an unsinkable reputation for reliability and good fuel economy. But for more than two decades it's also been a hot youth car, often seen prowling urban drag strips, tricked out with oversized...
...personal dissatisfaction of thousands of women arising from a limited conception of feminine fulfilment. The book was one of the first articulations of what Friedan termed the “problem that has no name.” In the book, she dared women to establish individual identities, distinct from the traditional housewife role...