Word: intentionalism
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...spending his life in the tobacco fields, he left for Sampit in Borneo several years ago and found work as a driver. Last February, long simmering tensions between the Madurese and the native Dayaks erupted. The Dayaks, in hand-to-hand, town-to-town combat, embarked on a rampage intent on exterminating all things Madurese. The killings began on a Sunday, Ma'ruf remembers. Houses were burned. Madurese were murdered indiscriminately, often brutally. Ma'ruf abandoned his home and his car and fled with his family to a hastily erected refugee camp. As he left, he saw his neighbor beheaded...
...Well, we?re getting a very good response from the media. The real question, of course, is whether policymakers will pick it up and build consensus. Congress is really intent on doing something - especially to develop usability and security standards...
...techniques for gathering the cells are in quiet development; scientists are generally wary of disclosure, because public reaction is difficult to predict. Revelations that scientists at a privately-funded Virginia fertility clinic are growing human embryos with the intent of harvesting stem cells have provoked widespread hand-wringing, among both advocates and opponents of stem cell research. Advocates worry that publicizing such a blatant and systematic cell harvesting procedure can only harden hearts against the science; in the crude terms of public relations, using stem cells from discarded embryos is one thing, but purposefully creating an embryo only to dismantle...
...Ehrmann, who describes himself as a Freemason with an anarcho-Marxist philosophy, is intent on pushing the envelope when it comes to social contracts as well as technology developments. "I have always lived in a tribal fashion," he says of his penchant for cohabiting with several women simultaneously. "We show each other respect...
...June 8, an Assistant U.S. Attorney announced the government's intent to seek a maximum penalty of life without parole for Mesa, following his indictment on 15 counts, including two of first-degree murder. His lawyer, without offering details, entered a plea of not guilty. The trial is scheduled for November...