Word: notionalism
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...hopes for new and far more effective drug and regenerative treatments for heart diseases. Scientists at Children’s Hospital Boston also independently discovered a different stem cell line that develops into two main cell types that form the heart. The results of the studies challenge the previous notion that the heart’s different cell types are so diverse that they must generate from disparate sources. “This is the first study that shows that a single cell can give rise to all cardiac tissues and structures,” said Kenneth R. Chien...
When considering the arguments of"God vs. Science," I always revert to the notion that we're not as smart as we think we are. The arrogance of the atheists in thinking they've figured it all out is matched only by the arrogance of the religious zealots who think the same...
...stake in this debate without having ever walked a mile in someone else's hijab? In a modern and open-minded world comfortable with self-indulgent fashion preferences, permanent "body art", or cosmetic surgery, isn't there something particularly inappropriate to heated public rowing over someone else's notion of modesty? Fundamentalism is deserving of criticism, we can all agree - but that should extend to the "progressive" fundamentalism driving the campaign against the veil...
...TIME by Israeli military sources. Obaid says there appear to be direct communications links between the Iranians and Hizballah, via Hizballah officers working inside the Iranian embassy in Beirut, and Iranian officers in the field with Hizballah fighters; in the past, some Middle East analysts have rejected the popular notion that Hizballah takes direct orders from Iran...
...will drag on for months before it wends its way into the U.N. Security Council. Moreover, such a confrontational approach would run counter to the expected recommendation of the Iraq Study Group, commissioned by the White House, to engage with Syria. But after the assassination of Pierre Gemayel the notion of U.S. talks with Syria may be off the table, at least for the moment...