Word: reductionism
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Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque has been busy developing nuclear weapons ever since World War II. With the cold war over, lab planners shelled out $900,000 to hire Being First Inc., a consulting team from Berkeley, to help redefine Sandia's mission. But the consultants' New Age methods have...
American Airlines is one of the strongest U.S. carriers, but lately it has been feeling under the weather. Last week the airline said it will have to cancel at least 230 flights, or 11% of its daily schedule, including all its Los Angeles -- to -- San Francisco flights. American attributed the...
Officials from many states complain that Washington is making their problems worse. Two weeks ago, lawmakers who assembled in the capital for the National Conference of State Legislatures claimed that the recent budget compromise between the White House and Congress would cost the states an additional $17 billion over five...
While the great majority of the 12,000-man Panamanian police force remained loyal to their President, the fact that Endara did not rely on them to put down the rebellion is a sign of serious political weakness. The Herrera episode was also a setback for U.S. interests in Panama...
A. The scientific community is responsible in a major way for the paradoxes and dilemmas in which we find ourselves. The paradox is that this decay is occurring at a time when there are more opportunities than ever to ferret out the secrets of human biology and apply those secrets...