Word: idea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Binyan's error is in thinking that the Tiananmen Square movement was wasted effort. International opinion was galvanized by the idea and image of non-violent students, gathered to express humanist ideals, bloodily crushed. If this movement is kept alive and if it eventually does succeed, the students of Tiananmen will rank among the historic martyrs of the world. Liu Binyan is right is saying that many things were and are lacking from the movement; he has potentially added a new dimension to the movement...
...other five letters are about the Quarterly's denial of "equal time" to the right-to-life side of the abortion rights debate. While equal time is a neat idea for television media that are legally bound to observe a pretense of objective journalism, the Quarterly, happily, has no such obligations. Contrary to the claims of the letter-writers, the Quarterly has in the past featured articles by anti-choice activists. It is thrilling, now, however, to see the Quarterly take a feminist stand in the face of protest from some of its readers...
...month duration of the trial. Another drug, carbamazepine, long taken to prevent seizures, has proved to be moderately effective against cocaine craving. In tests this year, six of 13 people taking the drug stopped using cocaine and the remaining seven reduced their intake about two-thirds. Researchers got the idea for using this antiseizure drug after hearing reports that low doses of cocaine triggered mini-seizures in some animal brains and that this "kindling" in the brain might be linked to craving. By next year, NIDA expects to have eight to twelve antiaddiction medications in clinical trials...
Rawls bases his theory of justice on the "Original Position." In this hypothetical situation, people decide before they are born how to organize the society in which they will live. The actors have no idea of the places they will occupy in this society--one might end up a corporate magnate or a homeless person...
...award makes freedom something more than anarchy because it gives the layperson an idea of what the professional community's consensus is and thus sets up a goal society should try to attain," Meselson said...