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To check the operation of a vague generality under fire, take the typical example, “Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme.” The question is asked, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived...
The artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us begin with the question, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?”
But there may be strength in the shifting numbers. Men account for 5.4% of registered nurses, up from 2.7% in 1980--still a small number, to be sure, but they represent 9% of nursing-school students, and schools say applications have swelled. In public schools, just 26% of teachers are...
Beijing has tried to keep health-care costs in check in rural localities by capping the price of many procedures. For example, pumping the stomach of someone attempting suicide by eating fertilizer?a practice not infrequent among women in farming villages?costs $1. But governmental price controls mean local clinics...
But those not ethically inclined against state-sanctioned death might turn their attention to numbers that have recently received much public notice at Harvard with the April 16 visit of former Illinois Governor George Ryan, who commuted the sentences of all 167 of his state’s death row...