Word: meaningfulness
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One afternoon in January 1971 I was summoned to the interrogation room once again. The call was so unexpected that my heart was pounding with excitement as I followed the guard. At the door of the interrogation room, the guard suddenly gave me a hard shove. Five more guards crowded...
Argentina’s recent push for legislation benefiting the nation’s domestic workers acknowledges the stickiness of the employment situation, but in rather curious way: It aims to regulate the industry by mandating labor contracts for the 800,000 to 900,000 domestic workers in the country...
New findings on the brain and its relation to the human mind may be scientifically sound but philosophically defective [Jan. 29]. Scientists like to break a rose, say, down to its atomic and subatomic particles. Likewise, they view consciousness as merely impulses within the brain. While this is sound science...
Concluding that neural firings are the only reality denies a more transcendent meaning. We all grow old, and like Woody Allen, we wish we would not. Our soul is an immortal, stationary bedrock, evidenced by our acute perception of time passing. We perceive time because it is separate from us...
Even this, the ice scenario, is bad news for the many pension funds that are only now plunging into hedge funds. Top hedge funds are often closed to new investors, meaning that newcomers are apt to get worse-than-mediocre performance while still paying 1% or 2% of assets and...