the chronicles of america yale university press

... slow the speed of change to manageable rates The result is that the system of fast knowledge creates social traps in which the benefits occur in the near term while the costs are deferred to others ... cleverness, is the proper aim of all true learning • The velocity of knowledge can be inversely related to the acquisition of wisdom • The careless application of knowledge can destroy the conditions ... what it means to be human They may well threaten human survival In the words of software engineer Bill Joy (2000, 242), “we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil.” We are driven

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... year of each other, the views of the founders of. .. elections is a start The next step is to rein in the power of corporations by insisting that they abide by the terms of their ... earth or to the legitimacy of human wants. On the face of it, the case is absurd. Most physical laws define the limits of what it is possible to do. And all of the authentic moral teachings of 3,000 ... pain, as they say, and did not seem to notice the problem, nor did the dozen or so men, simi- larly anesthetized, standing around the pickup trucks at the edge of the field. Believing the lack of twine

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... materials audit of the building, includ- ing an estimate of the amount of carbon dioxide released by the con- struction, along with a menu of possibilities to offset these costs. The groundbreaking ... in the fall of 1998. We occupied the building in January of 2000. We now know that the goals for the project were reasonable if ambitious. The building now generates a substantial portion of the ... describe it as their legacy to the college. Because of their work on the project, many of them learned about ecological de- sign and how to solve real problems by working with some of the best practitioners

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... happened? The emergence of the consumer society was neither inevitable nor accidental Rather, it resulted from the convergence of a body of ideas that the earth is ours for the taking, the rise of modern ... that not tell the truth about THE ECOLOGY OF GIVING AND CONSUMING 175 the full costs of what we consume, ignorance about the hazardous content of much of what we consume, the breakdown of community, ... to the capitalist mind, are the places where children form their initial impressions of the world Such places are, as Paul Shepard (1976) noted, the substrate for the adult mind Some part of otherwise

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... Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. The Institute acts under the responsibility ... advantage of opportunities as they emerge • A recognition of the importance of supporting the comprehensive nature of the research university, spanning the full spectrum of academic ... NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Gov- erning Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of

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... was the talk of the town The company was dismantled; KKR made a nice profit But as more of these hostile takeovers hit the press, and the layoffs that came with them rose, the ... percent of the money raised AAA ratings, which meant very little risk of default The agencies, however, did not examine the creditworthiness of the loans in the portfolios Rather, they ... repayment. They typically try to resell the company or take it public before the loans come due. Played out within reasonable limits regarding the amount of the debt, the strength of the acquired

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... description of the subjects, the instruments, and procedures for the study 4.1 The subjects There are two types of subjects participating in the study The first type is the 1st year students at the Faculty ... by ‘the + adjective’ (i) the + adjective Adjectives like the following are used after ‘the’ to represent a group as a whole such as the blind, the deaf, the dead, the rich, the poor, the young, ... students because they cannot realize these nouns as plural by their forms It arises even more challenges for students when they often make mistakes in making the subject and the verb of the sentence

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... expressions as the members of the jury, the members of the family These expressions sound better and clearly indicate that the individuals are acting separately: The members of the jury have ... bourgeoisie, the clergy, the elite, the gentry, the intelligentsia, the laity, the proletariat, the public (c) UNIQUE: the Arab League, (the) Congress, the Kremlin, the Papacy, Parliament, the United ... the blind, the deaf, the dead, the rich, the poor, the young, the old, the unemployed, etc These words refer to a group of people who share the same characteristic or quality For example: the

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... all the time of the research and the writing of this thesis I also wish to thank the Registrar’s Office for offering me the precious opportunity to participate in the timetabling project for the ... information of previous timetabling system The number of room types depends on the range of class sizes in the test case, as well as the percentage of capacity to facilitate the students of the whole university ... timetabling is proposed in the presence of the university expansion The reallocation of modules to the new campus and the incurred impact on intercampus traffic, rather than the timing, are our main

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:13

... THE GAP BETWEEN BRAND IDENTITY AND PERCEIVED BRAND IMAGE: THE CASE OF VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY – HO CHI MINH CITY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of MASTER OF BUSINESS ... This thesis cannot be done without the support and encouragement of the people that I have benefited throughout the time of preparing and completing the work First of all, I would like to express ... Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION In Marketing By Le Thi Hai Yen ID: MBA05055 International University - Vietnam National University HCMC

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... support to the Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Management program in cooperation with the Southern Luzon State University, Republic of the Philippines; DR NGUYEN THE HUNG, Director of the International ... colleges of Thai Nguyen University and the respondents of the study for their active involvement and cooperation which made the conduct of the study possible; His family and friends, for the love ... reading and checking the manuscript, providing the researcher with useful materials; DR CECILIA N GASCON, President of the Southern Luzon State University in the Republic of the Philippines, for

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... and 1850 the population of Europe doubled This contributed to immigration to America’s cities • In the early 1900s increasing numbers of automobiles contributed to the continuing growth of traffic ... in cities In 1901 New York State became the first state to require automobile license plates • In 1931 Jane Addams became the second woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize Genre Nonfiction Comprehension

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... earth or to the legitimacy of human wants. On the face of it, the case is absurd. Most physical laws define the limits of what it is possible to do. And all of the authentic moral teachings of 3,000 ... erosion. The speed of the horse, in other words, allows the Amish to pay attention to the minute particulars of their farm and how they farm. By a similar logic, he waits to cut hay until the bobolinks ... 2000). 987654321 Printed in the United States of America on recycled, acid-free paper Contents I. The Problem of Ecological Design 1. Introduction: The Design of Culture and the Culture of Design 3 2. Human...

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... Bacon, a professor of New Testament criticism and interpretation at the Yale Divinity School, holds the distinction of being the fi rst title to bear the imprint of Yale University Press. Other scholarly ... works of approximately three hundred American writers from the time of the American Revolution to , published by the Press for the Bibliographical Society of America and begun under the ... of the development of human personality that stressed the importance of self and the uniqueness of adult personality, by the American psychologist Gordon W. Allport. An even older series, the...

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... and their social, cultural, and Published with assistance from the foundation established in memory of Philip Hamilton McMillan of the Class of 1894, Yale College Copyright â 2006 by Yale University. ... Artifacts of Colonial America, the appearance of Kathleen Deagan’s two vol- umes devoted to artifacts of the Spanish colonies, and the publication in 2000 by the Society for Historical Archaeology of ... served as a covert means of negotiating the constraints of femininity; women were able to make meanings of their own while overtly living up to the oppressive stereotype of the passive, silent, vain,...

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... before the rotation, would see the pictures on the inside surface of the rubber band, while the pictures on the outside of the band would be hidden. Then after the rolling of the rubber band, the ... as the back ap- proaches the water; and finally, the thin rectangle of the back of the chair is present in the two- dimensional world. But in the shadow model, if the sun were to cast a shadow of ... reinforces the notion that slices represent reality by capturing infinitely thin sections of space and then stacking them together to define motion. Further, the stacking together of all of space...

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... and lack of military power), and to end the oppression and aggression of the West, they have decided to concentrate on the destruction of one or the other of these “eternal” enemies. Why They Did ... killing these “agents of the West” and re- placing them with men who will rule by the shari‘a alone. The ji- hadis who see the destruction of the Caliphate as the essence of the problem want to ... under the banner of al-Qaida, the attack on the United States was required of them as defenders of the “true” faith. Al-Qaida believed that the United States, as the greatest representative of “unbelief,”...

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... Europe in the early 1880s, under the impact of the wave of pogroms unleashed by the assas- sination of Russian tsar Alexander II. By the late 1890s, the ide- porous borders.” The rest of the article ... leaving the Holy Land has been fear of the Muslims and of future Muslim excesses, which is also the cause of the emigration of Iraq’s Christians). Many Christian Arabs from the 1920s through the ... the other side, the idea of a partial or full expulsion of Palestine’s Arabs by the Jews was discussed and supported by much of the Zionist leadership in the late 1930s and the 1940s, against the...

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... spoke of JPL as a sort of national resource. The economic metaphor suggests as well the effects of the end of the cold war and the search for new justifi cations for the civil space program in the ... Jupiter and Saturn and as many of their moons as possible. The daily rotation of the earth and the wheeling of all three planets about the sun and the moons about their planets, each at its own ... humankind in general, with the fulfi llment of primitive dreams of fl ight to the heavens. 32 The “new frontier” of space appealed in particular to the tradition of the frontier in American history,...

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