Word: slates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rockefeller, who had outspent Wolfe 15-to-1 through mid-October, has run on a slate of traditionally Democratic issues, like improving education and health care, protecting Social Security and creating new jobs...
There’s something striking about the row of zeros underneath Harvard’s record column. They conjure up an image of a blank slate, where all teams are equal and anything and everything is possible. They mark a time when the thrills of past victories and the disappointment of dreams cut short are discarded, as teams embark on the journey toward the ECAC playoffs...
...student contact be the factor in the equation that is diminished to make room for time for being a public intellectual. MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker, whom FM tracked down on the West Coast in the midst of a six-week tour to promote his new book, The Blank Slate, says he makes a point of answering students’ e-mails on the same day that he receives them. But still, as Pinker admits, in order to be an effective public intellectual, “something’s got to give.” Pinker says he spends much...
Last night’s home-made game show kicked off a new slate of bimonthly community meetings organized by the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters’ Alliance (BGLTSA...
...genes and how much by environment. And according to Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, we continue to give far too much credit to the latter. In a series of articles, a lecture tour and especially in a new book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Viking), Pinker argues that ignorance, prejudice and political correctness have kept scientists and the public from appreciating the power of our genes...