Word: preciousness
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...1930s, when the prevailing view had the human family rooted in Asia, the Leakeys reversed scientific opinion and placed man's origins in Africa. But while Louis spun grand--sometimes grandiose--theories, Mary preferred the nitty-gritty of fieldwork. She spent long hours under the broiling African sun unearthing precious fossils and stone tools, then carefully measuring, sketching and cataloging them. "Theories come and go," she once told Pennsylvania State University anatomist Alan Walker, "but fundamental data always remain the same...
...society, if they wish (which many philosophers would agree with). However, they fail to recognize the importance of the fact that primates evolved in social groups--that groups are essential to the human species. Or maybe they do not care--after all, that would cast some doubt on their precious Rand's writings. So, the Objectivists continue their irrational philosophy, and try to spread it to others...
...problem with such reasoning is that admitting that quality is more important that sanctity is tantamount to saying that individuals who have a lesser quality of life than us have a life which is less sacred. By this reasoning, our lives are more precious than those of the starving kids in Ethiopia who have an abysmally low quality of life and a very painful existence. If such individuals started demanding "voluntary" euthanasia, saying that their suffering was unbearable, would we be willing to accommodate them too? And what about a paraplegic who requests death? Are we going to refuse...
...anything, it is an inspiration to see so many Harvard athletes committed to their sport that they willingly sacrifice precious vacation time...
...York City--uses the medium of dance to make its point. Cocteau's 1929 novel, which he transformed into a 1950 movie, was a typically neurasthenic tale of the unhealthy relationship of Paul and Lise, siblings whose excessive attachment to each other eventually destroys them. At once precious and oblique, the story could easily seem ridiculous today...