Word: ideas
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...same time, the author keeps a running commentary on the nature of history and storytelling. Martinez bases the shifting structure of his story on the idea that "nothing is like anything else, nothing is ever just one story, but a net that each person weaves without knowing the overall pattern." Martinez realizes that the work of other artists who have attempted to capture Evita is part of this patchwork, and he mentions fellow Argentinean writers Rodolfo Walsh and Jorge Luis Borges frequently. He even discusses the opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, calling it precisely the simplification...
Leandro R. Arozamena, a TF for Social Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics," said he was focused on his work and "that idea never even came to my mind...
...into his story and makes them his own. Good and evil are starkly contrasted in a satisfying, traditional fashion. The love triangle between Han, Leia, and Luke, though trite, is boldly left unresolved and becomes more interesting in light of what we learn in the later films. Even the idea behind the Force--the product of an ancient religion that has power over modern technology--taps into the debate between modernity and technophobia that is even more relevant today than twenty years...
...examining a species of female pond dwellers, which live without sex and have no males, sperm or fertilization among their species. Since the species reproduces asexually, a daughter should inherit all her mother's genes. But Meselson found that the offspring differed from their parent genetically, and developed the idea of a silent mutation, a change in genes that has no effect on an organism. Thus, Meselson's findings cast doubt on the prevalent assumption that sex is essential to evolution. "There is no general agreement on why sex exists," he said. "It's a big mystery...
...fuel to the debate whether such areas of occupation are truly necessary to the defense of Israel." This week, Israel's Public Security Minister proposed that Israel unilaterally withdraw from the zone, saying Israeli soldiers were unnecessarily a target for Lebanese guerrillas. While Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai rejected the idea, Stewart thinks that could change. "Israel is a nation whose identity rests largely on its security. But the crash occurred within Israel's borders, without any involvement from Lebanon or Syria," he said. "There is certain to be outrage over what, exactly, these soldiers died for." Former Prime Minister Shimon...