Word: rareness
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...Whatever hope Zimbardo offers rests on society's ability to recover its waning spirit of community. Where that occurs, vandalism is rare. Nathan Goldman, chairman of the sociology department at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, reports that a school deeply involved in its neighborhood-by holding night programs for parents, for instance, or by opening its doors to extracurricular community functions-invariably deters the vandal. Somehow, the behavioral scientists feel, man must discover how to apply this lesson on a broader scale. The vandal's deed is his declaration of defiance against a society that...
...idea of spending a year of reading, reflection, and vigorous discussion with like-minded colleagues at America’s premier educational institution is a rare and remarkable opportunity,” new fellow Bill Schiller—currently foreign editor at The Toronto Star—wrote in an e-mail...
...pictures as a sign of vanity and therefore taboo. Others compile lists of the 70 people Islamic tradition says a "martyr" can guarantee a place in paradise. "I haven't got my 70 names yet--I don't think I know that many people," Marwan says, allowing himself a rare smile. Some dig graves for themselves and leave instructions on the way they should be buried--generally with simple headstones. Marwan says he won't need a grave: "If I am lucky, my body will be vaporized. There won't be anything left of me to bury...
...have been aware that they were about to be blown up. "In a majority of cases, you find hands chained to the steering column, so these were not volunteers," says al-Juboori, the Interior Ministry spokesman. But U.S. investigators who have looked into scores of cases believe coercion is rare. Navy Commander Fred Gaghan, head of the Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell, which has investigated more than 60 bombings in the past five months, has not found any evidence of fetters. "They don't need them, because they have plenty of volunteers who will do it willingly," he says...
...refused to bear grudges or pay people back for previous hurts. While his colleagues tended to let things fester and brooded over perceived slights, he argued that "no man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention." So rare in a politician, this attitude allowed him to form friendships and alliances with those who had previously opposed him. In the 1850s, Edwin Stanton had humiliated him when they were partners in a law case, referring to him as a "long-armed ape," refusing to deal with him as an equal, deliberately shunning...