Word: toole
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...rights front was more encouraging and elicited our praise. Bigoted animus was shown the legislative door with the inclusion of gays in laws protecting groups from hate crimes. Such legislation will be necessary as long as there is targeted violence—it is a corrective tool that we are glad now protects homosexual individuals...
...macromolecules to re-imagine the computer chip. So why is it that the experience of interdisciplinarity is far too often delayed until the late stages of an undergraduate career? The traditional wisdom at colleges across the country is that understanding the productive interface between scientific disciplines first requires full tool boxes from each of the fields, tool boxes that are packed during the freshman and sophomore years. Then, if you make it to the upper level science courses, light dawns, and you are ushered into 21st century science, complete with its porous boundaries between fields. Unfortunately, however, far too many...
...profession of economics engages in an extreme kind of wishful thinking, or worse, deception, is grossly unfair and misleading. Cobb-Douglas will not predict economic growth in the way that Newton’s Laws describe motion, but it generates crucial insights into economic phenomena and is a powerful tool in understanding the principles underlying economic relationships...
Tasers can be a useful tool for police, and we hope that they remain available to law-enforcement officials. But in most cases, police should stick to the old-fashioned tackle when subduing fans who jump onto the field. The YouTube crowd will probably find it just as entertaining...
...historical reasons, opinion on nuclear energy has become divided along party lines, an unnecessary political judgment on what should be a simple and clear technical question. There is no real ideological reason for this; nuclear energy is not innately conservative or liberal. It is merely a tool that has gained a very unfortunate political labeling. Fortunately, the global-warming crisis has started to remove some of the more emotional opposition to nuclear power, and the question has become somewhat less partisan over the last several years...