Word: conceptions
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...none of that pinpoints e-mail's greatest draw: its time-wasting value. More respectable than Tetris, less obvious than just Plain Vegging, e-mail provides a welcome respite from the brain-sizzling intellectual workout students subject themselves to in demanding classes like "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization...
...concept of a mandatory expository writing program at a university like Harvard invites disaster. An optional expository writing program would eliminate the current deficiencies of the current program and would better serve the interests of students...
Carter suggested the concept of "democratic intermediaries"--groups who who could negotiate between the state and its citizens to promote understanding...
...1970s. PCR enables chemists to take a bit of DNA from a cell and make limitless copies of the molecule. PCR-amplified DNA has been used to provide material for gene-therapy experiments, to convict rapists and, yes, even to make copies of DNA fragments from ancient fossils -- a concept taken to its logical conclusion in the movie Jurassic Park...
...group of people, strong enough to encourage the killing of non-group members. I look, even, at the Germans--my would-be enemies in my persona as a French Jew--and wonder why re-unification was so important to either half. Who are these people with such a strong concept of nation...