Word: mining
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...judge one moral life to be better than another is dangerous. While this may protect society from the violent crusades of absolutists, the sanctuary will be temporary. My values may be no more valid than yours, but at the same time yours are by definition no more valid than mine, and if my values hold, for example, that zoroastrians should be burned at the stake, your values (which might include the maxim, "Burning people is wrong")are relevant only to you and your actions, not to me or my actions...
...disguise this agenda: "[N]o one should come to Harvard with a firm grasp of the truth just to lose it in the quagmire of attitudes prevalent here...[W]e hope to present the truth in such a manner that those willing can accept and believe it," (emphasis mine...
...success is a kind of fairy tale, a musical fable for this uncertain transitional time in rock. The Millis go down easy, and easy, for the moment, looks like enough. This is not to suggest, however, that the Millis are unaware of their social impact. "Like a friend of mine went to Africa," Pilatus reports. "And there was no soap and no Coke. But there was Milli Vanilli...
Future doctors in Birmingham get a leg up by studying a bicycling skeleton. Aspiring engineers in Oak Ridge, Tenn., explore a model coal mine. In New York City, make-believe media moguls produce their own sitcoms in a TV studio. A decade ago, it would have been hard to find such innovative exhibits in children's museums. For the most part, those museums were pint-size versions of adult institutions, where kids were expected to keep their mouths shut and their hands in their pockets...
...take these schemer's ridiculous, convoluted advice. Take mine. I say that what really matters during your job interview isn't what you don't do, For example, don't point at a picture of the interviewer's children and snicker...