Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wisdom we could all benefit from," says Grosz
This rewriting of conventional wisdom has accelerated in the past 10 years. New fossil beds have been found and old ones rediscovered in the Gobi Desert, along the ancient Silk Road in the mountains of China, on the margin of the Argentine Andes and in the jungles of Laos and Thailand. Despite the remarkably small number of scientists working in the field -- only about 100 worldwide, splitting a meager $1 million in research funds -- a new dinosaur species is found on average every seven weeks...
...accused of plagiarism, of stealing ideas and language from someone else and parading them as original. This charge is a lightning bolt to the bole of a writer's reason for being -- the task of adding to, as opposed to filching from, the sum total of human wisdom, knowledge or expressiveness. It has the additional disadvantage of being monstrously hard to refute, even when it is false...
This isn't an issue of free speech. No one is denying Powell's right to speak in public--in fact, we'd enjoy hearing Powell speak here on another occasion. But we question the Wisdom of the invitation. Powell has no specific right to speak at commencement, any more than we do. It is the administration that decides who to invite, taking many factors into consideration. One of those must certainly be achievement. But one of those must also be the consideration that Commencement is a time to rejoice in the achievement of all, not argue over the prejudice...
Against defense witness Sergeant Charles Duke, who asserts that the beating was within department guidelines and that there were no "head shots," the first prosecution answered with a career desk officer. This time Duke was rebutted by witnesses with street wisdom: the police academy's trainer in the use of force, Sergeant Mark Conta, and a California Highway Patrol member who saw King beaten, Melanie Singer. Conta said, "We never teach to break bones. I see excessive force here. The picture I see is that of a beaten man who is not combative or aggressive." He faulted each defendant: Koon...