Word: planet
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...point in the exhibit, onscreen images of planet Earth appear one at a time on different screens while the voice talks about Creation. The images bubble from screen to screen, syllable, when the language utters the words "physical" and "physiological." A rope creeps across nine screens while the voice drones on about the particularities of length and measurement. When Heidegger's text contradicts itself--"But space and time do not serve only as parameters"--the screens go blank. Then the images start rippling from left to right, change direction and slow down, as Heidegger winds his way through more...
...represents. It stimulates job growth by increasing the attractiveness of American labor. Encouraging an increase in the amount of human capital will not only make American labor attractive to American firms but foreign firms as well, luring high-wage, high-quality jobs to this country from across the planet. It gives us more bang for the diminishing number of bucks at our government's disposal and also (to the extent that the credits or tax cuts are focused on stimulating more and better grammar and high school education) deals with the growing problems of economic inequality and inequality of opportunity...
...dinner conversation with TIME editors, Castro says capitalism ``is a catastrophe for the world'' and denounces its effects on the environment. In Europe we know that communism did nothing to preserve our planet. But we also know that ecological neglect was forced on the people of Eastern Europe as long as the two systems were competing for world domination. When communism ceased to be its adversary, capitalism should have changed its system of values. Instead, as Castro says, it keeps on ``digging its own grave...
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Meanwhile, aggrieved white men can console themselves with the gains their wives have made. Numerically speaking, white women are the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action, and because white women tend to marry white men, it follows that white men are, numerically speaking, among the top beneficiaries too. On this planet, Bob Dole and Pat Buchanan may not have been able to figure that out yet, but most white guys, I like to think, are plenty smart enough...