Word: reductionism
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Reacting to the most authoritative affirmation to date of the role of human activity in causing global warming, environmentally-oriented students and faculty at Harvard were agreed: Global warming is real, but there is still much that can be done about it. In its harshest assessment yet of humansâ?...
While outright victory is not a possibility for the N.P.A., neither is extinction. Victor asserts that Arroyo's "all-out war" is unwinnable. The Philippine army is thinly dispersed, he argues, capable of engaging only a quarter of the N.P.A.'s 120 "fronts" nationwide while remaining vulnerable to hit-and...
The House of Representatives passed legislation last week that would cut interest rates on need-based student loans in half over the next five years. The College Student Relief Act of 2007, which would lower the interest rate from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent, was among the top legislative priorities...
Back in December 2000, if you had asked the then dark-haired President-elect to assess his predecessors, George W. Bush might have ranked Bill Clinton down around, oh, say, 42 out of 42. The President's friends say he has a lot more respect for Clinton now having seen...
Republicans insist they won't take it lying down this time around. They say they'll flex their power to block passage of spending items - which require a two-thirds majority in both houses that Democrats can't muster without their help - as a way to force themselves into the...