Word: kernel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign did not go completely unscathed. The Student Association (BGLSA) responded in kind . Their posters, put up alongside AALARM's, read Hatred=Death." At least this poster contained a kernel of wasteful and dilatory efforts of hate-mongers who our progress in finding a cure for AIDS, by dividing our loyalties and our purpose. Their hatred is indeed both a physical and a spiritual...
However, despite our every instinct to the contrary, there is one thing that consciousness is not: some entity deep inside the brain that corresponds to the "self," some kernel of awareness that runs the show, as the "man behind the curtain" manipulated the illusion of a powerful magician in The Wizard of Oz. After more than a century of looking for it, brain researchers have long since concluded that there is no conceivable place for such a self to be located in the physical brain, and that it simply doesn't exist...
...initial concerns may be quite genuine and shared by many other citizens. "There is almost always a kernel of truth to the false beliefs that these groups hold," says Dennis Johnson, a clinical psychologist and head of Behavior Analysts & Consultants, in Stuart, Florida. "Perhaps [it is] a piece of legislation they can point to and say, 'Here, look. Here's our justification.'" But then they look beyond that trigger and see a world that is painful, malevolent and out to get them...
...Harvard administrators had the kernel of a good idea when they set on the path of talking and thinking about employee benefits," the letter says. "But those managers lost their way somewhere along that path, arriving at a poorly-conceived and potentially cruel plan...
Contrast this to the numbers of Asians in government courses, and the difference is significant. While the stereotype of Asians is often exaggerated, it does contain more than a kernel of truth. And a look at the number of Asian-Americans in the political arena today reflects the choices made in college years...