Word: explainers
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...experience of some sort. As vague as that term may sound, there is a reason that it is so difficult to describe such an experience--the diversity of beliefs about God and one's personal relationship with Him can be mind-boggling. Yet the fact that is hard to explain does not mean that one should dismiss it completely as some irrational feeling or a pattern of unusual behavior. It is wrong to completely deny the human need for guidance, one that has such an obvious and simple answer...
...always based on two or three phonemes that she varies and arranges, playing on 'vocalic' and 'consonantal' rhymes, much as in a musical tude." Gurianova's attempt to compare the elements of art to the phonemes of language and the notes of music is confusing and does little to explain Rozanova's work...
...horses. An avid horse lover, I came into this project fresh from two years of scouring the school library, the public library and any bookstores within walking distance for every tidbit of equine knowledge available in print. The 800-word limit seemed hugely unreasonable--I had so much to explain. How could a subject which occupied my entire bookshelf at home be reduced to four double-space pages of loosely cursive script...
Certainly, not everyone is pleased with this new research. Looking to animals to study something as complex as motherhood, critics say, is little more than anthropology by analogy, relying on the worst kind of scientific reductionism to explain the highest kind of human impulses. But anthropologists view matters differently, seeing in animal and human mothers a striking commonness of purpose--and a striking commonness of grace. "All mothers face similar dilemmas," says anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy of the University of California at Davis, "no matter what their ambitions or circumstances...
...party," says Carney, if he wants to increase his leverage in the Senate - or run for the nomination again, Reagan-style, in 2004 as the one man who can wrest the country from a 12-year Clinton-Gore habit. A minor possible conflict of interest that'll explain a lot if these summits aren't completely, well, convincing...