Word: rationale
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If the nation's most informed public-health experts do not share their best guesses, people will find worse information somewhere else. "People cannot make rational decisions without knowledge," says Dr. Sandro Galea, director of the Center for Global Health at the University of Michigan. "And knowledge has to flow...
There's friction in the doll community. Number 1 (Christopher Plummer) is a cautious, shriveled type, who rules the gang from atop a throne in the remains of a former church and prefers to hide from the mechanical beasts. Given that the dolls are about eight inches tall and the...
Time disparity is also reflected in an observation made by a classmate at our 50th reunion. At the time we started, the Spanish-American War was as remote as World War II is to the current class. The Spanish-American War seems impossibly distant. One has to conclude that WWII...
The beauty of the policy is that it's neither liberal nor conservative, just deeply pragmatic--the most American ideology of all. You do whatever works, throw ideas at the problem and see what sticks. Look at our history, and the not-quite-rational patchwork of minimal solutions has a...
Life, Liberty and a Dignified End I thank you for your essay "Dying Together" [Aug. 3]. I find Sir Edward Downes' decision to end his life perfectly rational and objective. To live only because your heart and lungs still work seems to me an inadequate justification for longevity. John Mulholland...