Word: obvious
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...behavior ranging from the benignly bizarre to the frighteningly dangerous. When people seek truth based on faith rather than evidence, their decisions are connected to reality only coincidentally and are often divorced from it. The risks that we all face when powerful people act on untested beliefs should be obvious. I can only hope that one day the majority will embrace candidates for whom reason, rather than God, is their adviser. Brendan Cameron Vancouver...
...Perhaps the most widely criticized flaw in Harvard’s tenure system is the obvious lack of diversity among tenured professors, particularly with regard to gender. This became a more urgent issue when the percentage of full professorships offered to women dipped from 19 percent in the ’02-’03 term to 13 percent in ’03-’04 school year...
...answer, for some, is obvious. Many, like Senator Craig, lead public lives in conflict with their private desires. Many are married. Some are married couples who want someone to come to their home dressed as a cat. (“Please state in your response why you believe that you are qualified for this position,” ends the post, somewhat surprisingly.) But for others, like the scrawny, white, and heavily tattooed “Mr. Cool Ice,” there is a simpler reason. They don’t want to appear pathetic. And at least among...
...Stags, with the other two coming against Maine (Sept. 7) and Vermont (Sept. 11). Hahn, who is a vocal leader in the back, has let in an average of just 0.99 goals per game. Although it is more difficult to quantify Nyamekye’s contributions, it is obvious that he is the anchor of the defense. Late in the second half of Saturday’s game, Fairfield was able to send a through ball up the middle to forward David Piedrahita. Piedrahita found himself on a breakaway with the closest Harvard defender 15 yards behind him. Unfortunately...
...people do this? There's an obvious benefit," says Elizabeth Loftus, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Irvine who is famous for her critical work on the recovered memories of alleged sexual-abuse victims. "It may not be immediately financial. But certainly being bathed in a love bath of attention and affection is a lot of benefit for a lot of people...