Word: ideas
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...really enjoyed my time here and like the idea of staying in contact with my friends and classmates forever," O'Malley said...
...idea was to cover the world with a more or less evenly distributed network of some 128 stations...to study the earth's structure in three dimensions," Dziewonski says...
...enter the project as ignorant as was the character he plays, Austrian mountain climber Heinrich Harrer, when he stumbled across the Tibetan border in 1944. But on a movie set stocked with actual monks working as extras, the actor picked up a thing or two. "Their idea of a civilization that rejects violence on principle--I mean, what?" he ejaculates with Jackie Gleasonesque incredulity, feigning the shock of someone raised in a society, like ours, with a less diffident regard for force. "The Tibetans say, 'Don't look at this as our weakness but as our strength. If we bless...
...such blatant discrimination be legal? The critical distinction that the courts have made is the idea of "bona fide occupational qualification." For example, directors can specify women to play women's parts in plays or movies, and positions as guards in high-security prisons can preclude women. Notes Doug Huron, a leading labor lawyer in Washington: "Courts have made very few exceptions in sex-discrimination cases, but the Hooters settlement would appear...
What drives the elephants to do it is not clear. Game wardens and animal-behavior experts have a theory, however, and while they stress that it is speculative, the idea is compelling. The elephants may be depraved, the experts say, because as children they were deprived. The troublemakers are apparently all orphans, taken as calves from their slaughtered parents during culling operations in the huge Kruger National Park and relocated to establish elephant populations in parks and private reserves throughout the country...