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...method of "transfer of nature to canvas" differs from artist to artist, but the underlying theme seems to be a simplification of natural forms to their bare essence. The genre attempts to narrow the dichotomy between form and content. The artists' subjects are brought to the surface by means of abstraction: the figures or objects are stripped of the paraphernalia that composes form and are, instead, reduced to only content...
Kahlenberg also complained about Law School professors' use of the Socratic teaching method, in which teachers elucidate concepts by questioning students. Kahlenberg said this practice made him "uneasy" about coming to class when he was a law student...
...representatives said the College's present method of funding organizations' events fosters "competition," not closeness...
...response of Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa was far from encouraging: "Everyone knows that Syrian Jews live on full equality and with the same freedoms of other Syrian citizens who happen to have other faiths." The equal right to choose which method of torture to take is really a great way of establishing a level playing field...
...issue is risk assessment, the method of evaluating how dangerous a substance is to humans. In the U.S. officials have been quick to ban chemicals that according to lab tests are carcinogenic. But skeptics contend the system is so sensitive that if standard tests were applied to all chemicals, both natural and synthetic, fully half of them would appear to cause cancer. "It's a bit like the search for witches. You can always find them," says Colin Berry, chairman of the British government's pesticide advisory board and a critic of the way American scientists have evaluated risk...