Word: notionally
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...most troubling aspect of Bush's plan, however, is the notion that social services should be performed by religious charities rather than the agents of the public as a whole. Not all social services are the results of "compassion"; rather, they are part of the social compact that accompanies the modern economy. One of the unpleasant, but unavoidable, side effects of the economy is unemployment, and it is unlikely to disappear anytime soon. (For one thing, if unemployment were to fall below 4 percent tomorrow, the Federal Reserve would quickly jack up interest rates until a safe number of people...
Their audacious use of the I word triggered an avalanche of criticism from many of their colleagues, who called their conclusions unwarranted and farfetched. And it's easy to understand why. The idea that intelligence is rooted in the genes has long been an inflammatory notion--witness the charges of racism put to Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, authors of The Bell Curve, their controversial study of IQ and race. Beyond that, the very concept of intelligence is slippery. It involves many qualities--some of them elusive, like creativity, others more clear-cut like the ability to solve problems. "This...
...single gene determines even the most concrete aspect of my physical anatomy, say the length of my right thumb. The very notion of a gene "for" something as complex as "intelligence" lapses into absurdity. Intelligence is an array of largely independent and socially defined mental attributes, not a measure of a single something, secreted by one gene, measurable as one number and capable of arranging human diversity into one line ordered by relative mental worth...
...writing as-told-to memoirs for pro athletes such as Nolan Ryan and Walter Payton. The Left Behind books are his passion, though. Of the Rapture and Second Coming, he says, "We believe it could happen today or it could happen a thousand years from now." He resists the notion that his novels exploit today's premillennial anxiety. "The books don't mention any date whatsoever. We're not talking about the millennium. We're not talking about...
...that was, in fact, part of her "Shy Di" appeal. Those who immersed themselves in the turbulent life and times of Diana, Princess of Wales, knew about her struggles with bulimia, her tendency to throw herself down stairs, her unwise love affairs, her basic inability to stick with any notion for much longer than it took her to tire of her latest--albeit fabulous--hairstyle...