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...while praying to God for victory may be useless, thanking God for success is perfectly appropriate. By thanking God, an athlete would be acknowledging the manipulation of forces outside of human control that ensured victory...
...live in that useless patch of land between New York and California called America...
Hyman and his colleagues agree that in waging the war against disease globally, scientific expertise is useless globally, scientific expertise is useless without working knowledge of health care systems, economics, government and human rights...
...coerced into going to class or contributing in section. If they choose not to attend a valuable course meeting, that is their loss. Alternatively, if a professor gives tedious lectures whose content can be more enjoyably gleaned from a book or if a teaching fellow leads facile and useless discussion sections, why should intelligent students be forced to waste their precious time solely to prove themselves committed enough to merit a good grade? A Harvard education should be about challenging the brightest students of their generation to realize their intellectual potential. And that can only come about when professors...
...warfare to impressionable children. It’s quite difficult to explain to a child how poison gas stops your respiratory system, how it leaves your body swollen with scabs and rashes, or how it makes you bleed through your pores. Worse still, try explaining that the mask is useless against blistering agents, which enter through the skin...