Word: notionalism
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...Force Magazine he challenged the assertion that ground troops too often are eager to fight and therefore deny the Air Force the chance to prevail solely from the sky. "Does anyone believe that the United States Army or the United States Marine Corps actually encourages such a notion today in Iraq or Afghanistan?" Schwartz wrote in the magazine, published by the pro-service Air Force Association. Then he delivered a stinging blow, referencing perhaps the darkest day in the Air Force's recent history, when trigger-happy fighter pilots in broad daylight killed 26 U.S. troops and their allies flying...
...former official in Bush's Education department is giving at least some support to that notion. Susan Neuman, a professor of education at the University Michigan who served as Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education during George W. Bush's first term, was and still is a fervent believer in the goals of NCLB. And she says the President and then Secretary of Education Rod Paige were too. But there were others in the department, according to Neuman, who saw NCLB as a Trojan horse for the choice agenda - a way to expose the failure of public education...
...crucial to keeping us alive. And in the surreal, over-the-top and often unintentionally humorous biomedical horror Parasite Eve, Japanese novelist Hideaki Sena depicts them as sentient beings - so indignant over our indifference that they want to wipe us out and take over the world. Of course the notion is far-fetched, but the endosymbiotic theory of mitochondria, which posits that the organelles evolved from ancient bacteria, provides Sena's gruesome fantasy with a veneer of plausibility. Given the chance, he suggests, they might want to become their own organisms again and knock off their human hosts while they...
...architects of the ban deny a link between population and poverty. "I reject the notion that we are poor because we are plenty," says former mayor Atienza. "Poverty is caused by mismanagement, not by the number of people." He?s partly right, of course. Endemic corruption and sluggish agricultural production helps keep the Philippines poor. But government statistics and a host of studies show that population is part of the problem. Access to nutrition, education and employment decreases dramatically when a family outgrows its means...
...dirty” science in homage to the archetypical gears, grime, and grease often associated with it. Thanks to innovators like Beranek, a pioneer of modern acoustics who played a key role in the development of the Internet, the modern digital age changed our very notion of what technology could be: invisible, pervasive, and as clean as silicon...