Word: sown
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...does not lessen the grandeur of the human intellect to argue that it evolved partly in response to social pressures or that these pressures also produced similar abilities in "lesser" creatures. Instead, the fact that nature may have broadly sown the seeds of consciousness suggests a world enlivened by many different minds. There may even be practical applications. Studies of animal cognition and language have yielded new approaches to communicating with handicapped and autistic children. Some scientists are pondering ways to turn intelligent animals like sea lions and dolphins into research assistants in marine studies or into lifeguards...
...with particularly high expectations of the place since become the most disenchanted. Rather than being a school in which health and balance are rewarded, Harvard instead is a place where the seeds of self-absorption and personal ambition are watered, even if they were not first here sown. For all its claims of excellence, this place is definitely not excellent in human relationships. Too many of us walk through the Yard each winter with excellent minds while our hearts and souls sense the oncoming frost and are forced into hibernation, later uncannily showing signs of rebirth only as Spring Reading...
...seeds of the affair were sown back in 1982 during the Iran-Iraq war, when President Reagan approved a "tilt" to Iraq as part of a campaign to keep either side from dominating the Persian Gulf region. That same year, the Reagan Administration scratched Iraq from its list of countries supporting terrorism and, in 1984, for the first time in 17 years, extended full diplomatic recognition to Saddam Hussein's Baghdad government. During the '80s, the U.S. guaranteed billions of dollars in commodity credits and loans to Iraq, while the CIA began secretly sharing intelligence information with Saddam...
...sixtysomething football coach has the gruffgrumpy-old-man-vote sown up. He's got the gumption to say what he thinks...
...disdain for politics- as-usual propels his anti-campaign. Yet Perot has turned over management of his crusade to a bipartisan corps of political pros who exemplify everything Perot says he opposes. Their efforts to transform Perot's volunteer army into a more traditional campaign brigade have sown widespread resentment and anger among his early enlistees...