Word: inferior
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...athletes are far more contemptuous than any remarks he quoted. When men’s heavyweight crew captain Michael J. Skey ’03 observed that athletes won’t stop training for seven weeks to join a cello group, he was neither saying that music is inferior to athletics nor that athletes are uninterested in other activities. Skey’s comment meant only that no one could become an active member of an orchestra in a mere seven weeks...
...backlash was understandable, says Pinker. Once you suggest that human nature is in any way hardwired, it's easier for the unscrupulous to write off entire groups as genetically inferior--as the Nazis did with Jews, Poles, Gypsies and gays. If have-nots are genetically lacking in drive or intelligence or ambition, what's the point of fighting poverty...
...Health Systems, based in Cypress, Calif., enters the market--the company hopes to put together a pilot program by late next year--and the cost of health insurance continues to rise at an annual rate of 12.7%. And in spite of the American Medical Association (AMA), which warns of inferior care in Mexico, the idea is winning converts in other border states, including Arizona and Texas, where legislators and academics are studying ways to set up their own cross-border plans...
...whole thing," Wiseman says. They just didn't find much to laugh about. I don't care so much about what made Germany laugh, or what made Canada not laugh, or that France - surprise - likes surreal humor, or even that America - surprise, surprise - likes jokes that make people feel inferior. Nor am I worried about the self-esteem of ducks, surprisingly rated as the funniest - and thus the most laughed-at - creatures. ("My money would have been on the chicken," says Wiseman.) I am, however, worried about me. Why didn't I laugh? Eventually, I screw up the courage...
Dershowitz concluded his speech by questioning whether those who do not believe in God are considered inferior American citizens to those who believe in a supreme being...