Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...academic fate of America's children to anything less than astute professionals is to invite mediocrity. The American educational system has problems far more pressing than the moral significance of the Rainbow Curriculum. Let's leave the management of out schools to people with the experience, training and wisdom to confront them...
...right to carry" can only increase this fundamental freedom. The enduring wisdom of the Second Amendment stems from its link between the protection of freedom and the power of the individual. The government should increase each citizen's power as much as possible in the effort to increase individual freedom. We should all rejoice, not scoff, at the efforts of Texans and other Americans who are working to empower responsible individuals in a society which intinctively craves solutions of further dependence...
TENS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS TAKE MEDICINE TO control hypertension, or high blood pressure, and most of them -- and their doctors -- presume that many of the available pills are interchangeable. Now two studies in the current New England Journal of Medicine have shown that this conventional wisdom is quite wrong, and the finding could change the way these medicines are prescribed...
BECAUSE HALF OF ALL PEOPLE INFECTED WITH HIV live for 10 years, showing very few viruses in their blood before developing AIDS, conventional wisdom held that the deadly invaders were dormant much of that time. Not so, say two studies in Nature. The intruding virus immediately produces millions of copies that lie waiting in lymph nodes, pea-size organs found throughout the body. Once key parts of the immune system are destroyed, this reservoir of viruses spills over into the blood. Such a massive behind-the-scenes attack may make it impossible to rid the body of the viruses...
...pity that the folk wisdom of food has degenerated into commercial slogans -- for the kitchen is a place of remembered magic. What are spells, if not womankind's oldest recipes? What is a caldron but a pot for witches' bouillabaisse? Snow White's stepmother was Apple Annie with a grudge, and Macbeth's Weird Sisters were the sous-chefs of Destiny. If a woman's place is at the stove, then it is there she spent millenniums perfecting her potions. She let her power simmer over a low flame; then she served up the concoction, a work of art from...