Word: explains
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...Harvardian who spends time on the 'Net has had the experience of trying to explain the usefulness of e-mail to a high school friend attending a less technological school. Those who don't know how to use it are often afraid of it. Many hope that it will go away, or not last for long, sort of like the horseless carriage...
...Dennett's taste. His standard for orthodoxy is simple and strict: there are those who believe in "skyhooks," metaphysical interventions in human development which make us qualitatively different from all other creatures, and those, like him, who believe that "cranes," mechanisms which arise only from natural selection, can explain selection, everything that sets humanity apart...
...president proceeded to explain in a clear,easy-to-understand manner, his positions ontuition, financial aid and need-blind admissions...
...biggest surprise is the way Dole has confounded critics who believed he could not run for President and at the same time meet the conflicting demands of being Senate majority leader. The two jobs work at cross-purposes: G.O.P. hopefuls have to run to the right, which helps explain why Dole took the no-tax pledge in New Hampshire and vowed to help repeal the assault-weapons ban. Majority leaders, meanwhile, have to build links to the party's center to win Senate approval of such measures as the $1 trillion budget that promises some tax cuts but stops short...
...grow ganja; he's been there, I guess, so it means something to him, but I felt out of it, like I was supposed to be following some kind of yellow brick road. But now I'm 15, and that's too old for Oz. Which I'll explain to Mr. Banks when I see him at the mall...