Word: insightful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...primitive creature may take apart an internal-combustion engine to study it but still never understand how it works--because its secret lies external to it, in the principle that explosions exert pressure. This insight is vital to understanding the engine. Hence it is no mystery why scientists haven't grasped the brain: they have been studying it solely on its own terms, much the way a primitive creature studies the engine. In my opinion, the answer lies outward. Scientists should ask, What real-world principle is the brain designed to exploit? TOM SALES Somerset, New Jersey...
YOUR COVERAGE OF THE ASSASSINATION attempt on President Hosni Mubarak [Egypt, July 10] failed to provide an objective insight into the violence gripping Egypt. Your conclusion prescribed a Band-Aid solution for Mubarak: choose a successor and name that person vice president. The political turmoil in Egypt and Algeria, being intertwined, is symptomatic of a single underlying cause: the ruthless suppression of democratic rights by an authoritarian regime clinging to power...
...jazz studies at Boston's rigorous Berklee College of Music, Terrasson mixes a thorough knowledge of the jazz canon--from Cole Porter to Duke Ellington to Miles Davis--with a rich harmonic sense and a carefully reined iconoclasm. On his debut album, Jacky Terrasson (Blue Note), he squeezes fresh insight and nuance out of fossilized tunes like My Funny Valentine, Bye Bye Blackbird and Porter's I Love Paris by accelerating the tempos, throwing in breakneck stops and starts and reassembling the melodies as if shuffling a deck of cards. The effect is to make sentimental and familiar numbers sound...
Sanders, 63, said his background in both the academic and corporate worlds will give him the insight necessary to perform well in government...
Graves, currently a public policy fellow at Radcliffe, said the issues raised by the allegations of sexual harassment and the treatment of the issue by other Senators and the media provide insight into the power structure on Capitol Hill...