Word: rationale
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The U.S. as a nation is famously lucky. Its primal luck was geography and timing: a wild natural abundance that was encountered by gifted men and women in the clear rational blue of the Enlightenment. The Constitution was drafted in a moment of ascendant science -- political science preached by Locke...
"The democratic principles at risk here are every bit as serious as the health issues," notes Michigan's Osborn. Agrees Dr. David Musto, a medical historian at Yale: "We need to deal with these issues now while we can still be somewhat rational about them. This is the calm before...
Like other jurors, she found herself able to disbelieve a key part of Goetz's taped confession, in which he stated he had approached Cabey and said, "You don't look so bad, here's another," and then fired again. "Did that really happen, or did he just think he...
ABC Nightline Moderator Ted Koppel at Duke University, Durham, N.C.: We have actually convinced ourselves that slogans will save us. Shoot up if you must, but use a clean needle. Enjoy sex whenever and with whomever you wish, but wear a condom. No! The answer is no. Not because it...
Perhaps the most important of Greenspan's early gurus was Ayn Rand, the best-selling author of novels like Atlas Shrugged. Though Rand is now generally viewed as a pop philosopher who was neither a rigorous nor original thinker, she was fresh and influential when Greenspan met her in 1952...