Word: reflective
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fact, the booming economy has enabled most of the Democratic Governors to lower taxes. Immigration is a huge issue in the region, and the Democrats have profited by supporting comprehensive plans--increased border control, along with guest-worker provisions and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants--that reflect both the growing influence of Latino voters in the region and the needs of the local farming and construction businesses for labor. Democrats also tend to reflect a Western let-and-let-live attitude on social issues like abortion and homosexuality. But given the traditional Western aversion to lockstep conformity, none...
...delighted by TIME's choice for Person of the Year [Dec. 25-Jan. 1]. It was well-deserved recognition for the Internet users who are coming together to shape the future in virtually every sphere of our lives. But it is also an opportunity to reflect on how the Internet is a product of the work of collaborating communities, which means there is no central control and no restriction on the creativity and genius that bring new applications online each day. Open standards and collaboration, rather than top-down or centralized governance, have ensured that the Internet's development remains...
Consciousness is an emergent property and not a process in and of itself. Our cognitive capacities, memories, dreams, etc., reflect distributed processes throughout the brain. The thousand conscious moments we have in a given day reflect one of our networks being "up for duty." When it finishes, the next one pops up, and the pipe organ--like device plays its tune all day long. What makes emergent human consciousness so vibrant is that the human pipe organ has lots of tunes to play, whereas the rat's has few. And the more we know, the richer the concert...
...instance, the designers create false perspectives that recall airport landing paths, an illusion they've underlined along one stretch with a string of low-rise "runway" lights. This is a park that doesn't try to separate nature and civilization. What it does instead is lead you to reflect on how they penetrate each other just about everywhere you go. Maybe somebody should have told Thoreau that if he couldn't get away from the sound of that train whistle, the thing to do was just whistle along with...
...recent months, he had begun calling up journalists himself, to correct what he termed "misreporting" in their stories. He even berated one journalist last summer for referring to Dr. Hanif as a "man who claims to be a Taliban spokesman." Hanif's confession to the NDS appears to reflect a bitterness against Pakistan and the ISI, even a feeling that he was betrayed by them. But it may be just as likely that he simply got too cocky, making one call too many on the mobile phone that had made him a media celebrity...