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Word: minding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance, a law degree helps you become a better thinker," Burns says. "The greatest quality a consultant can have is an active mind that isn't afraid to challenge ideas that everyone accepts as true...

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bain Blends Work, Fun | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...live on campus and they re going to provide you with a desk, they should supply you with the correct desk...since they supply you with a desk you re not going to go out and buy your own." Acting in loco parentis, Harvard needs to make us mind our posture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Nick of Time | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...teachings of various "mind over matter" schools of medicine have traditionally been viewed with extreme skepticism by the Western medical extablishment. Especially in Boston, such dogma smacks of Mary Baker Eddy s Christian Science Movement (especially in the light of recent highly publicized cases where Christian Scientist parents let their children die for want of medical care). Up until the 1960s, the accepted model of how pain worked was the one proposed by Descartes in the 17th Century. According to Descartes, a painful sensation is strictly a physical and mechanical phenomenon, as simple as pressing a piano key and getting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Nick of Time | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

Billing itself as a "meeting place for inspired minds," OurSquare wants to be "the online community of the Ivy League." How do they tell if your mind is "inspired," you might wonder. They check with the Registrar's Office. In order to keep the on-line community suitably exclusive, members must be on record as a student or alum of one of the 17 schools OurSquare deems "inspired"--the Ancient Eight plus Amherst, Duke, MIT, Northwestern, Stanford, Swarthmore, University of Chicago, Wellesley and Williams...

Author: By D. M. Rosenblatt, | Title: WWW.EXCLUSION.net | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...they wouldn't have an abortion themselves, but they don't think the nation is "ready" to ban the practice of abortion. Doesn't sound like a position you could march for. Recently, the first Democratic Governor of California since 1983, Gray Davis, couldn't make up his mind whether illegal immigrants should receive emergency medical care, which a 1994 proposition banned. The proposition was successfully challenged in court, but Davis couldn't simply accept the court's ruling, even though his Republican predecessor had been the one behind the law. So, here we have another non-decision modeled...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: In Defense of Immoderation | 5/5/1999 | See Source »

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