Word: topically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...like from your colleagues? Your parents?BGE: My colleagues study a mix of subjects. We have people who study subjects that are absolutely sensitive...people who study fraud, people who study crime. My colleague Al Roth studies kidney transfers, including even the general possibility of selling kidneys. So no topic is off limits, and my colleagues have been supportive. Meanwhile, my parents are civil libertarians at heart. They support me in all things, and I’m greatly appreciative of that. 7. FM: You mentioned that you worked by zip code. How were the numbers...
...abortion has shocked public opinion. Some Brazilians hope the controversy may compel the country to deal seriously with an issue that affects so many of its citizens. "Brazil wants to be a world leader, but the government can't guarantee equality for women," says Galli. "This is not a topic that anyone wants to debate...
...email circulated at Dartmouth, published yesterday by IvyGate (O hey guys!), contained some pretty inflammatory language on the topic of Kim’s race. Some are calling it satire, others outright racism. An excerpt from the email...
...Philadelphia, the task-force members and panelists spent a long time congratulating one another on their good intentions before turning to the meeting's single topic: green jobs. The stimulus package bestows $500 million for green job-training programs, $6 billion in loan guarantees for green industries and $5 billion for a weatherization-assistance program that could save homeowners up to $350 per year on utilities. Van Jones, president of Green for All, made an impassioned plea to "give young people the chance to put down that handgun and pick up a caulking gun." Greg Nelson, official Middle Class Task...
...hold an annual summer retreat for his former theology students that focused each year on a single theme of acute concern. Three months after his rise to the papacy, Benedict XVI continued the tradition with a closed-door encounter in the Vatican's breezy summer residence, Castel Gandolfo. The topic chosen that first year with him as Pope was Islam, and the keynote speaker was Father Samir Khalil Samir, a soft-spoken, Cairo-born Jesuit and an expert on Muslim history and theology...