Word: prism
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Washington has a bad habit of viewing things elsewhere in the world only through the prism of American experience, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the recent comparisons of Iraq and Vietnam. Both President Bush and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman are wrong in comparing the current violence in Iraq to the 1968 Tet Offensive...
...socially successful people have better access to limited resources, both economic and otherwise. Successfully competing for these social resources often requires education, mobility, flexibility, and time; unfortunately, all of these elements become much more inaccessible after the birth of a care-intensive child. Viewed through Darwin’s prism, abortion can be seen as a tool that women use to increase their survivability, their ability to compete for limited resources, and even their ability to have greater future reproductive success. After all, if a pregnant woman does not have the economic or social resources to care for the baby...
...energy and the environment. Also working in Gore's favor is a political climate change, as the man who defeated him for the presidency in 2000 is currently suffering from approval ratings in the 30s. Says former Gore aide Chris Lehane: "People are now looking at him through the prism of the last six years and realizing that he had and has a lot to offer...
Students. Teachers. Parents. TV. The Education President. Zero expectations. Feverish expectations. Our story on high school dropouts, as seen through the prism of small-town Shelbyville, Ind., brought plenty of mail--and lots of theories about who's at fault and how to help America's latest lost generation...
...will never see the world again in the same way. I've been given a window on the world that you can never get if you're a diplomat from your own country, where you see everything through the prism of your own national interest. My country has respected my independence completely, and I appreciate that...