Word: learnedness
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The July 7 London attacks were the first suicide bombings in Europe. A year later, what lessons have been learned from this atrocity? Such attacks by jihadist groups inspired by al-Qaeda ideology pose a particularly difficult challenge to those assigned to protect the public in an open society - and...
But it didn't stop there. Whatever support the Israelis had for the mission was undermined by the lead-footed way in which it was carried out. In the first days of the operation, Israeli warplanes wrecked three bridges and several roads inside Gaza. The F-16s overhead repeatedly broke...
From that research, scientists are gaining intriguing insights into the people we become as adults. Does the manager who runs a congenial office call on the peacemaking skills learned in the family playroom? Does the student struggling with a professor who plays favorites summon up the coping skills acquired from...
After a sojourn at Oxford, Hall eventually returned to join Harvard’s prestigious Society of Fellows, where he learned about mathematical linguistics by chatting with Noam Chomsky.
Eventually, he came to love his English classes, particularly one in his senior year called “Modern Poets” taught by Edwin Honig. In that course he came to appreciate Wallace Stevens, who, Updike learned, hailed from the same Pennsylvanian county as he.