Word: tools
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...death penalty is not a matter of personal vengeance. It is a tool society has to punish gross offenders of society's rules, and to protect its innocent...
...received some 2,500 years ago have stood the test of time. These basic truths are as relevant to late 20th century America as they were to 6th century B.C. India. Trials and tribulations are constant factors in daily living, and meditation can only make good sense as a tool to get in touch with our inner core and the spiritual self to weather life's troubles. OM SAHAI San Mateo, Calif...
Sure, we've been worrying about our academic performance, frowning TFs and that tool who did all the Ec 10 reading, but what we need is the heavy duty neuroses that only Woody can deliver. We want to worry about death, sex and even worrying for its own sake. We want to fear fear itself...
...know one more thing about the death penalty: it changes our relationship with the government. If the House approves the death penalty bill this week, we will be living on a section of earth where death is a tool of the state, where I can't be assured that my very existence is not out of reach of a fallible criminal justice system. And if I feel threatened as a white, relatively well-off Harvard student, imagine how much more threatened one must feel living in a high-crime neighborhood, maybe having been hauled into a police station for questioning...
Because of the generally long lag between scientific achievements and their recognition by the Nobel committees, Chu said that "as [atom cooling] became a common lab tool, there was a chorus of people who were telling me that I should be getting the Nobel prize...