Word: cannot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...historian Leopold von Ranke remarked of the Frenchman Michelet: "He wrote history in a style in which the truth could not be told." Political conventions are conducted in a style in which the truth cannot be told. The Democrats have spent the week citing the falsities of the Republicans in Philadelphia (the phony diversity, for example, all those conservatives wagging their heads and singing, "Red and yellow, black and white/ They are precious in His sight/ Jesus loves the little children of the world...
...display better spatial skills and reasoning than girls of the same age--skills that are used later in life to do math and read maps. Researchers have long believed this difference is largely biological. But recent studies have shown that while biology does play a role, the nurture factor cannot be discounted. In daily play girls aren't encouraged as much as boys to engage in such spatially oriented activities as playing with blocks and puzzles...
...BIOLOGICAL CLOCK Despite disturbing evidence to the contrary (i.e., Larry King, Tony Randall), older men cannot father babies as easily as they might think. Scientists have discovered that male fertility--much like female--declines with age. The older a man is, the longer it takes his partner to conceive, irrespective of her age. The likelihood of a man impregnating a woman in a year of trying decreases 3% for every year after his 24th birthday...
None dispute that this cannot last. Where technicians quibble is the exact future points of resistance on the upside and support on the downside. Is the pennant symmetrical, ascending or descending? Let them quibble. Suffice to note that as the range narrows, we get closer to declaring a winner in the bull-bear tug-of-war. A textbook reading, says Richard McCabe, chief market analyst at Merrill Lynch, is that by late August, the pattern will be broken, the Dow's new direction evident...
...anthropology and try out theories. For example: Men, habituated to teaming up in forms of disciplined aggression and governance (hunting, war, politics), possess well-developed, wary instincts about other men, including their qualities of leadership. Male intuition discerns which men can be trusted with power and which cannot. In Vietnam, for example, an American combat soldier evaluating one of his peers might say, "I would go down the road with him." Meaning: "I think he's solid, I trust him. I know he'll back me up if things...