Word: intellective
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...does not lessen the grandeur of the human intellect to argue that it evolved partly in response to social pressures or that these pressures also produced similar abilities in "lesser" creatures. Instead, the fact that nature may have broadly sown the seeds of consciousness suggests a world enlivened by many different minds. There may even be practical applications. Studies of animal cognition and language have yielded new approaches to communicating with handicapped and autistic children. Some scientists are pondering ways to turn intelligent animals like sea lions and dolphins into research assistants in marine studies or into lifeguards...
...brilliant production -- complete with stylized masked figures pantomiming the mythological background -- the action it encompasses builds to a fierce momentum. Pennington and particularly Dench perform with such conviction that one forgets there is anything preposterous about their characters. This time Shaffer does not stack the deck in his perennial intellect-ecstasy debate but leaves the outcome ambiguous. In a gory, disturbing finale, both Edward and Helen must plumb, in their ways, the terrible meaning of the Perseus legend: that the slayer of the Gorgon becomes the thing he or she destroys...
...existence of God is a scientific fact constitutes preaching. Such a statement has no more foundation than one maintaining the divine origin of the universe. Imagine reading in a biology text: "The intricacies of nature are a clear sign that the universe was designed by some superior intellect." Any science professor arguing such a notion would probably be laughed out of Bio 2. Yet this statement is no less substantiated than the actual assertion made in the biology text. Each view simply reflects a different method of interpreting the same natural phenomena...
...balls that night, Clinton was like the college grind who drops in on frat bashes the night before the exam to show he's one of the guys, then sneaks back to his dorm to cram. Perhaps there is as much Nixon in him (the ambition, the intellect, the unkillability) as Kennedy (the charm, the recklessness, his position as centrist custodian of liberal dreams). He will need to be the best of both men if he is to close, as he said last week, "the gap between our words and our deeds...
...Senator from New York, a giant intellect who has succeeded Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen as chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, these few whispered words are a warning shot at least the equal of the spontaneous outpouring of public outrage that doomed Zoe Baird last week. Finance's domain, Moynihan rightly says, "covers everything the President cares most about -- economic recovery, trade issues, health care, welfare, Social Security, just about everything he got elected on. He's right when he says nothing he's proposed matters unless it passes the Congress. So he either talks to us sooner...