Word: wisdoms
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...issue then was whether or not to fight or pay tribute to the aggressive “Barbary pirates,” who were plundering American vessels that could no longer rely on British naval protection. Americans of the time debated the wisdom of aggression as a response to such proto-terrorist tactics, an unresolved disagreement that continues to the present...
...While teens lack wisdom, however, they're generally spared the long lifetime of frustrations and setbacks that can contribute to murderous rampages in older killers - the fired post office employee or office worker who suddenly reappears and guns down his former colleagues. "We see people with a job or a relationship that defines them," says Dr. Anthony Ng, assistant professor of psychiatry at George Washington University. "When that is shattered, they decide that they have nothing else." Opportunity and unlucky serendipity play a big role too. People with ready access to guns are likelier to use them than people...
...Yeah, that can be frustrating. So what advice would you give to students who want to follow in your footsteps? Any words of wisdom...
This unscripted strategy might sound like a big risk--there's nothing stopping the volunteers from saying they hate a product. But despite the conventional wisdom that consumers are much more likely to voice complaints than praise, recent research finds the opposite. In one study, Andrea Wojnicki, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Toronto, looked at self-styled experts and found that they were likely to keep negative experiences to themselves, lest their skill--at, say, picking a restaurant--be called into question...
Even if Lieberman’s stretch across the aisle is not just for show, the time has passed when it was necessary that senators be elected for their superior wisdom. In the age of mass media and widespread information, senators have a duty to represent the beliefs of the people who voted for them—an obligation Lieberman shuns in order to protect his own political capital...