Word: transcender
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Does Harvard's rationalist ethos make everyone spiritually insensitive, or is there nothing here? Is there no one who can transcend Harvard's Luddite-like insistence on living in the pre-"X-Files" age? How can an entire community refuse to acknowledge what the rest of the country knows: that ghosts, like almond-eyed aliens with impossibly long fingers and secret government agencies that deal solely with them, do exist...
...your report on a new procedure that may offer women the ability to freeze their eggs, thus lengthening their reproductive years [MEDICINE, Oct. 27]: the prospect of helping unfertilized human eggs transcend time raises the specter of babies born of mothers long deceased. Should a woman's death be accompanied by the destruction of her eggs? Or should the eggs of a particularly admired woman be allowed to reproduce ex post facto? Once again, science is so far ahead of the law that ethicists can only watch in wonder as the techno-train flies by. Disembodied eggs need living wills...
...Misha loses his innocence, his face becomes steadily grimmer. Dobrynin's virtuoso performance cements the film. The entire cast, in fact, merits special praise for their acting. Spotty subtitles cause the full meaning of the Russian dialogue to be lost on English speakers, but the marvelous performances transcend language...
Becker claims his goal is to transcend these misunderstandings. He offers as his thesis that the differences between men and women originated in the ancient age when men were hunters and women were gatherers. Consequently, men tend to be very singular and goal-oriented while women are more concerned with the abstract and the process...
...until the thrid track, the single, "Electric Barbarella" that the one and only LeBon and Rhodes transcend the genre of electronica and revist their roots. "Electric Barbarella," on the Duran Duran scale, is a mixture of "View to a Kill" and "Girls on Film." In this song, the band pays hommage to their eponoymus roots--the '60s cult classic Barbarella which featured a seminude Jane Fonda (Barbarella) trapsing across galaxies in her fur-lined spaceship, trying to save the universe from the clutches of mad scientist Duran Duran. "Electric Barbarella" is the only song on the album in which...