Word: shapes
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...understanding of a spectrum of areas and of multiple ways of thinking. Summa Cum Laude should be reserved only for those who are liberal arts scholars in the finest sense of the word, immersed in a specific set of issues and grounded in the diverse worlds of knowledge that shape our understanding...
Amazing and confusing sum up the reaction so far to the rewiring now under way of America's longest-running monopoly--the $200 billion electricity business, an industry larger than either automobiles or telecommunications. The basics are simple: under deregulation plans taking shape in many states, local utilities must open their lines to any power providers that want to ship juice to the utilities' retail customers. For the first time, consumers and companies will be able to pick their electric suppliers as freely as they now choose their long-distance carriers...
...eight fossil fuel-powered plants to comply with a state order for increased competition. So the company has gone out of state, creating an affiliate that has joined forces with Bechtel Enterprises to build and operate power plants in 17 states from Oregon to Florida. "In no way, shape or form are we moving away from electric generation as part of our business," says PG&E president Robert Glynn Jr. "We've transformed what years ago was a utility company focused on northern and central California into a national and what is beginning to be a global energy company...
What makes the belief in genetic identity so stubborn? In part a natural confusion over headlines. There are zillions of them about how genes shape behavior, but the underlying stories spring from two different sciences. The first, behavioral genetics, studies genetic differences among people. (Do you have the thrill-seeking gene? You do? Mind if I drive?) Behavioral genetics has demonstrated that genes matter. But does that mean that genes are destiny, that your clone...
...that the structure is finally set up to actually include people from all backgrounds at all levels, we have some power to shape it and expand the meaning of politics and democracy beyond the mere act of voting so that it can play a role in the culture of collective self-definition...