Word: proofed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Close reading. the abbility to make out what a text says or what the author intended it to say. It is true that understanding a poem and understanding a mathematical proof call for different reading skills. Yet I believe that the two sets of skills have much in common, and that someone who is proficient in one is well placed to learn the other. In music and the fine arts, the analogous skills are close listening and close seeing...
...automatically acquire core intellectual skills and habits by taking courses that emphasize distinctive modes of inquiry is pedagogically unsound: no one who has paid close attention to the way people acquire skills and habits would agree that this is what actually happens. Learning to decode a poem or a proof, to construct a cogent argument and support it with evidence, and to ask fruitful questions, are not skills that most people just pick up along the way. Each of them is nurtured by particular activities...
...hard to believe that anyone would delay trying this fool-proof technique of increasing health and alertness. I urge one and all to head for the MAC no later than tomorrow-oops, I mean this very...
...science of homeopathy, osteopathy or ordinary herbs--looks just plain shabby. "Weil cites a lot of anecdotes," says Dr. James R. Allen, a vice president of the American Medical Association, "and while they can be instructive, that doesn't mean they are necessarily valid in terms of scientific proof...
...skill. The patient survived, he believes, because of her will to live. This instinct, the product of eons of evolution, is evidence to the author that humans are greater than the sum of their 75 trillion constituent parts, their cells. Some readers will see the miracle of mankind as proof that a Creator exists. Nuland does not. His surrogate for spiritual piety is awe and wonder at the mystery of the human spirit and the marvelous economy of the physiology that embodies...