Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When asked to describe society's image of the ideal woman, adolescent girls in the 1970s placed the greatest emphasis on "thinness," Steiner-Adair said. In the 1980s, girls emphasized athleticism...
That is crucial, observes David Des Marais, a NASA biogeochemist. Liquid water is an ideal medium in which carbon-based organic chemicals can dissolve and react with one another in myriad ways. Why carbon, necessarily? Because, says Des Marais, "it is such a versatile chemical. It makes so many different and complex compounds. And it's the fourth most abundant element in the universe." Carbon compounds literally litter the cosmos, drifting through interstellar space in giant molecular clouds and making up a significant percentage, by mass, of comets and asteroids. Some scientists are convinced that the basic building blocks...
...under such conditions. But laboratory experiments have convinced them that self-replicating molecules are relatively easy to assemble. And the discovery of hot-water volcanic vents deep in the ocean, surrounded by rich ecosystems of exotic life, implies that a hot, young, volcanic planet might in fact be an ideal incubator...
...ignore this type of criteria system, deflated their heads and instead made students their number one concern and dedicated their time to helping students on a more regular basis? Is Harvard trying to convince me that this kind of professor, the kind that cares about students, is not the ideal kind of professor...
...full power to shape the course of their economy, the content of their airwaves, and the direction of their nation's growth can they be considered truly free. A worldwide democratic union, with regulatory power over multinational aggregations of wealth and power, is the only logical conclusion of this ideal...