Word: enlightenment
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...their work. Long-term epidemiological studies, like fine wines, improve with age, and thus new findings from the Nun Study can be expected to enrich medical knowledge for many years to come. Indeed, long after he and his colleagues retire, Snowdon imagines, nuns like Sister Mary will continue to enlighten Alzheimer's researchers. This, of course, is the point. "These women were teachers all their lives," says Snowdon, "and now they've found a way to continue teaching after their deaths...
Second, as we support and enlighten each other, I think we also must remember that we have a responsibility to curious outsiders. The question that any student religious group faces is how to reach the community at large without imposing on the individual religious experience. I think the most effective learning happens by example, through modeling behavior. I hope that interacting with students who are academically and socially active yet also find the strength and time for religion would inspire others to explore their own religious heritage. Awareness comes with exposure. That's the most valuable thing any Harvard religious...
...just before Christmas, and the President, in a forgiving mood, was trying to enlighten critics who had presumed to think that American officials could be bought by globe-trotting tycoons. "One thing we know," he explained anthropologically, "is that the culture out of which they come doesn't draw the same bright lines between politics, government and business that we do." He was describing the Asian-American donors whose largesse had done so much to help re-elect him in 1996 and embarrass him in 1997. But he might just as well have been describing his own roots in Arkansas...
...unimaginable--silence first, and then the apprehensive raising of a hand or two. Was there no one here who felt that his ideas were positively vital to the evolution of an educated discussion of the subject matter? Was there no one who felt that she could enlighten us all in the glow of her magnificent mind? The English department is a part of Harvard University...
...purest mathematics I'd encountered up until then, and while I had no difficulty working the problems or understanding the proofs, I began to worry about the motivation. What was the point of Lebesgue's way of defining an integral? Perhaps, I thought, Lebesgue himself could enlighten...