Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem may be that there is an ingredient missing. Emotional skills, like intellectual ones, are morally neutral. Just as a genius could use his intellect either to cure cancer or engineer a deadly virus, someone with great empathic insight could use it to inspire colleagues or exploit them. Without a moral compass to guide people in how to employ their gifts, emotional intelligence can be used for good or evil. Columbia University psychologist Walter Mischel, who invented the marshmallow test and others like it, observes that the knack for delaying gratification that makes a child one marshmallow richer can help...
...Vatican took delegates to the Beijing Women's conference by surprise in quietly backing a woman's right to refuse sex, even within marriage. But TIME's Greg Burke says that the Church is relieved that this relatively neutral issue is the main focus of the conference. "While the Church is concerned that Beijing delegates are defining the family to include alternative lifestyles, and that sparse attention is being given to motherhood, at least abortion is not the primary focus here. It was at Cairo, and there, they went all out to oppose...
...Milosevic, who is negotiating a peace settlement on all Serbs' behalf. But foreign affairs correspondent Marguerite Michaels reports that Mladic is acting in full concert with his patron. "The Serbs are doing something very interesting, which is to draw attention to the fact that the U.N. is not being neutral in this war. Serbs have long complained that the Muslims can go out on sorties against them and then retreat to safe areas to be protected by the U.N. So with this, the Serbs are saying, OK, let's negotiate, but don't call a club a heart here...
...geometric forms--a triangle, a cylinder, a rectangular box. A trapezoidal chunk of the museum brazenly juts out over Lake Erie. "The music has that youthful energy," says Pei. "It has to come through in this building." The structure is painted mostly noncommittal white and gray; Pei says the neutral color scheme allows the objects and visitors within the museum to stand out in contrast...
...only sensible escape from this logical dilemma is to acknowledge that--pending the arrival of perfect and universal racial justice--the true meaning of civil rights principles does not require either individuals or the government to act in ways that are strictly race neutral. Specifically, and to be crude about it, it is O.K. to favor blacks in ways it is not O.K. to favor whites. To be sure, this is a troubling and potentially perilous conclusion. It does not provide carte blanche for all forms of reverse discrimination. But it is the beginning of any honest debate...