Word: moralizer
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...American canon. And in Mr. Playboy, biographer Steven Watts argues that Hef's influence extends well beyond the bedroom. By framing sex as an All-American aspiration-as worthy a pursuit as good wine or flashy cars-the famous free-love evangelist scrambled our social norms, "[loosening ]old-fashioned moral strictures on one of the most powerful of human urges...
...moral of this tale is that you can try to hide, but you can't run; there is no "decoupling," as the Europeans had hoped when the global crash was still a stumble back in January. Just look at the stock markets since the beginning of the year. By market close on Oct. 7, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had dropped by 27.5%; the FTSEurofirst 300 Index of European shares was down 32.5% over the same period. The pattern continues. As go U.S. shares, so go Europe's, but faster and harder on the downswing - and more slowly...
...fastest growing majors in the United States, bioengineering represents a logical interdisciplinary trend that science—and academia in general—has taken in the last decade or so. The fusion of neuroscience and economics has produced the behavioral theories like “moral hazard,” which so many journalists cite in today’s newspapers. The founding of the Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT in 2004 has spurred scientists on the cutting edge of biology and technology to collaborate on developing genomic medicine. Even the undergraduate Life Sciences curriculum spans five departments...
...Dalai Lama once an accord is reached. “Obviously we see Beijing as the central government,” Gyari assured, explaining that as the result of an agreement the government-in-exile would dissolve. But by allowing the Dalai Lama to continue to speak as the moral authority for the Tibetan people, he added, China can grow as “a power that is respected, and not just feared...
...Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused the ANC of betraying the promise of the Mandela years, and former apartheid President F.W. de Klerk, who also served as a deputy president under Mandela, charged it with repeatedly flouting the national constitution. Clearly, the unimpeachable political and moral authority enjoyed by the ANC under Mandela, thanks to its leadership of the anti-apartheid struggle, has been been squandered. The generation of South Africans who'll be eligible to vote for the first time next year have grown up in a post-apartheid democratic environment. The split...