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...stones are starting to weigh him down. "I'm getting a bit sick of them," Cope says, explaining that he only started writing manuals to underpin his grand work in progress, Let Me Speak to the Driver?a less earthbound exploration of man's neurotic craving for myths - but got carried away. "I'm 47 - a good age for keeping your head down and working," says Cope. "But I've told my wife that when I'm 49, I'll probably go into a second period of psychic experimentation. I'm glad I've got the practical books...
...critique of the committee’s foundation courses is also without merit as he neglected to fully investigate the fact that students are engaged in grappling with the tensions that have been a part of feminist theory since its inception. Students are constantly examining the core questions that underpin feminist theory: how to define feminism, how to construct a theory and a praxis that is meaningfully inclusive, how to describe the subject of feminism, how to examine an array of areas of feminist inquiry (including motherhood, marriage and sexuality) and how to engage with the state to further feminist...
...During the late 1980s, historian Paul Kennedy popularized the notion of "imperial overstretch." It was a variant on Walter Lippmann's notion of "insolvency" in foreign policy, when a country's resources simply cannot underpin and sustain its ambitions. Some, like Kennedy, saw this happening to the U.S. in the 1980s. As a result, they predicted an "American decline...
During the late 1980s, historian Paul Kennedy popularized the notion of "imperial overstretch." It was a variant on Walter Lippmann's notion of "insolvency" in foreign policy, when a country's resources simply cannot underpin and sustain its ambitions. Some, like Kennedy, saw this happening to the U.S. in the 1980s. As a result, they predicted an "American decline...
...issues such as cloning and animal experimentation. And the irrational side of religion is no less potent than the irrational drives of scientists. Scientists’ methods, selection of projects and interactions with each other are often driven by the same irrational parts of the human mind that underpin religious belief. Neither religious faith nor science is a completely rational system. After all, they are both the result of the human genome, which, as Collins knows all too well, is neither rational nor orderly...