Word: minding
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...describe telling a biologist what you were writing about, and he says, "You should do a book called Warmth. You could do all the background research in Aruba." It's a fair point. Did that ever cross your mind? It crossed my mind a little bit, but it would have been darned inconvenient, since I live here in Alaska. Although I am working on a book now with the working title Heat: A Natural and Unnatural History. It takes the other direction on the thermometer and starts out looking at extreme heat with hydrogen-weapons testing that occurred here...
...some respects, this was exactly what we expected," says Timberlake. The stereotypes of wealthy, studious Asians and ready-to-fit-in Europeans have been fixed in the public mind for years now, and endure even in homogenous communities in which the need for real assimilation ended long...
...similar contrast can be found on the issue of “mind control.”Swastikas, among other offensive symbols, are banned in many European countries. Scientology has failed to obtain religious recognition in France, Germany, and the UK, among others, and Greece has banned it altogether. The mind-control argument in relation to burqas is easy to make. Absent the expectations of fathers, brothers, and husbands, what woman would choose to wear a burqa ? It deprives them of ordinary human interaction and makes them wholly subservient to the men in their lives. Burqas, it can be argued...
...contrast, the United States is not a society that protects its members against cults and perceived mind control. We tolerate the existence of skinheads and the Ku Klux Klan, flag burning, the swastika, and the hammer and sickle. We don’t interfere with the Amish, although their lifestyle represents a wholesale rejection of mainstream American society. We have a history of tolerating open expression of life-styles that are antithetical to mainstream values. Hippies in the 60’s were not only extremely objectionable to most of American society, but belligerent towards that society, and yet there...
...hand, his face breaks into a wry smile. "Forget the pandemic strain for a second and consider seasonal flu," he says. "How this virus can continue to evolve, maintain its viability no matter what we throw at it and cause us problems on an annual basis - it's just mind-blowing. I'll say this about it - it's a worthy adversary...