Word: insightfulness
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Despite the severity of his warning. Pisar maintains that his ultimate message is deeply optimistic: "If there is one salient insight I have brought out of my experience, it is that the human sprit has an amazing and infinite ability to endure and survive. Man can rise from the ashes and your like the Phoenix--and I say this with the authority of the number engraved on my firm...
...other stories, miscommunication takes place right at home, especially--where else--in bed. And this is where Atwood whips irony to a thick, using her acrid insight to turn human ambivalence on its back. In "The Grave of the Famous Poet" the narrator relates...
...competition for the Houston tower proved to be Jahn's opportunity to test this insight. The president of Century Development, Richard Everett, who is also an architect, laid down precise criteria: a building that would give Houston's skyline an identity and its downtown center a focal point. Says Everett: "We wanted a landmark, and we wanted a building that would be open to people and give them a civic space with a lot of public...
...these "translocations" might cause cancer has never been known, but the first real insight was announced at the Chicago conference. Researchers representing teams at Harvard and at Philadelphia's Wistar Institute reported that they had analyzed the piece of chromosome 8 involved in Burkitt's lymphoma. Both found that it contained a gene virtually identical to a cancer-causing gene isolated years earlier from a virus. The oncogene is located at the precise point where the fragment of chromosome 8 broke off. Thus the first link has been made between a known oncogene and an easily detectable change...
...wish to address the more general issues of the suitability of the Core curriculum directly but rather to defend one course which has been slighted in passing. As a partner with Professor John M. Rosenfeld in teaching this course, permit me to shed some insight into its rationale...