Word: functionally
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Social justice claims, The richer you are, the more you should pay--the income tax must function as a leveler to soften capitalism's inequities...
...treatment for Alzheimer's. Surgeons implanted a catheter behind the ear of a dozen patients to drain fluid from the brain. The goal was to improve the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain and reduce the buildup of neurotoxic proteins. Over a year, patients with shunts maintained mental function better than those in an untreated control group. Larger studies are under...
...promoting its ideals of free speech, democracy and the rule of law. The success of these basic values will do much more than a series of sanitized TV spots. Once the Muslim world, from Southeast Asia to the Middle East, begins empowering its populace and preparing its youth to function in the modern world, we may actually begin to see the swell of anti-American anger subside. This may seem too long-term, but there are easy, common-sense things we can do right now, such as supporting and promoting the budding Bahrainian democracy (which just held its first democratic...
...friendships with other students, is silly. Some athletes choose to block and socialize predominantly with other athletes; some social groups, whether based around ethnicity or extracurricular interest, choose to block and socialize predominantly with each other; each are aspects of any society, and none are inherently problematic. Human societies function in such a manner, and a simple fact of life is that people tend to choose to spend time with others who share their interests...
...article on the Washington rally in Sunday’s New York Times does not mention the scattered corny chant lyrics, conspiracy theorists, star speakers, or the speeches’ content. Instead, it focuses on the number of attendees. Clearly, here, the most important function of a public assembly is to prove that countable masses of people back a given cause. Thus, it is vital that those of us who oppose a high-cost invasion of Iraq, who are concerned about more serious threats to our long-term security—such as the spread of AIDS to India, Russia...