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On the human side, various subplots run through the novel, contrasting the " official " heroism of NASA with the human fallibilities of the cast — the difficulties the Kolffs face in integrating into American society ; Norman Grant's initial embrace of the space program and his abandonment of it as it no longer serves his political aims, while his unstable wife and their daughter fall in with a highly intelligent but cynical cult leader calling himself Leopold Strabismus who exploits first the UFO craze and then an anti-scientific creationist agenda to increase his fortune ; Randy Claggett's womanizing ; the contrast between Stanley and Rachel Mott's ordered, rational existence and their troubled relationship with their sons, and John Pope's unusual yet supportive relationship with his lawyer wife Penny.
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On the contrary, the frenzy and furor of combat is only the sombre foil against which the sudden illuminations of the human flash forth with the piercing radiance of a Caravaggio.
" On the biological or physical side, human measurements, genetic samples, nutritional data may be gathered and published as articles or monographs.
On the other hand, where a person has performed skillful actions based on generosity, loving-kindness ( metta ), compassion and wisdom, rebirth in a happy realm, i. e. human or one of the many heavenly realms, can be expected.
On the contrary, he must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge anything, that all human life must perish, were his principles universally and steadily to prevail.
* 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
On human nature, Boethius says that humans are essentially good and only when they give in to “ wickedness ” do they “ sink to the level of being an animal .” On justice, he says criminals are not to be abused, rather treated with sympathy and respect, using the analogy of doctor and patient to illustrate the ideal relationship between prosecutor and criminal.
On the lower and drier islands the vegetation before human colonization consisted of savanna or steppe vegetation, with the flattest inland portion supporting semi-desert plants.
On September 4, 2007, a team led by Sam Levy published the first complete ( six-billion-letter ) genome of an individual human — Venter's own DNA sequence.
On this view, talk about causal necessity is an expression of a functional change in the human mind, whereby certain events are predicted or anticipated on the basis of prior experience.
An early attempt to understand memory can be found in Aristotle ’ s major treatise, On the Soul, in which he compares the human mind to a blank slate.
For example, at the time that Darwin first published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ( 1859 ), no remains of human ancestors had yet been found.
On the human level this meant that all members of society should cooperate and coexist ; on the cosmic level it meant that all of the forces of nature — the gods — should continue to function in balance.
In 1766 he published a doctoral dissertation with the Latin title De planetarum influxu in corpus humanum ( On the Influence of the Planets on the Human Body ), which discussed the influence of the Moon and the planets on the human body and on disease.
On the basis of his linguistic analysis, Samarin defined Pentecostal glossolalia as " meaningless but phonologically structured human utterance, believed by the speaker to be a real language but bearing no systematic resemblance to any natural language, living or dead ".
On 6 February 2009, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first human biological drug produced from such an animal, a goat.
On one occasion, Iceman suffered a severe chest injury while in his ice form and was able to heal himself by converting back into his normal human form.
In 1843 Marx published On the Jewish Question, in which he distinguished between political and human emancipation.
On 3 August 2011, the NTC issued a Constitutional Declaration which declares the statehood of Libya as a democracy with Islam as its state religion, in which the state guarantees the rule of law and an independent judiciary as well as civic and human basic rights ( including freedom of religion and women's rights ), and which contains provisions for a phase of transition to a presidential republic with an elected national assembly and a democratically legitimized constitution by 2013.
On the other hand, cognitive-functional theorists use this anthropological data to show how human beings have evolved the capacity for grammar and syntax to meet our demand for linguistic symbols.
On 11 November, the Malaysian government briefly detained de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Tuesday and arrested a human rights lawyer and about a dozen opposition leaders, amid growing complaints the government is cracking down on dissent.
The term was introduced by Darwin in his groundbreaking 1859 book On the Origin of Species, in which natural selection was described by analogy to artificial selection, a process by which animals and plants with traits considered desirable by human breeders are systematically favored for reproduction.
On the futuristic side, the “ butterbugs ” of A Civil Campaign host a microbial suite which produces a nonperishable “ perfect ” ( in terms of human nutritional needs ) food.
On the human level, experiments attempt the ideal soldier (“ Labyrinth ”), the ideal worker ( Falling Free ), the ideal spy ( Ethan of Athos ), and even the ideal underwater ballet ( Diplomatic Immunity ).
The term was introduced by Darwin in his influential 1859 book On the Origin of Species, in which natural selection was described as analogous to artificial selection, a process by which animals and plants with traits considered desirable by human breeders are systematically favored for reproduction.
On and side
On the downstream, or `` pavilion '', side these vaults give out onto terraces twice as wide as the bridge itself.
On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.
`` On each side of the Hoogli, where we are now sailing, are the Hindoo cottages, as thick together as the houses in our seaports.
On the social side, the chore Mama had at the formal receptions at the White House thrilled her the most.
On Christmas Eve, students brought out two small Christmas trees which I placed on either side of the tent.
On the other side are the Celtic survivalists who have taken a tack divergent from both these schools of nineteenth century thought.
Even so, it adds up to impossible odds, except that the question arises, On whose side would the Mainland Chinese army fight??
On the other side of the church was a quiet, well-kept house with shutters and recently painted.
On the east side of the island of Manhattan the indifferent hawk knew the East River that connected New York Bay with Long Island Sound.
On the other side of the Golden Horn I rode through Eminonu Square, with Yeni Cami, or the New Mosque, which dates from the Seventeenth Century, just across from the entrance to the bridge.
On each side of the motor well there's storage for battery, bumpers, line and spare props with six-gallon gas tanks below.
On C, from the point P at Af to the point Q at Af, we construct the chord, and upon the chord as a side erect a square in such a way that as S approaches zero the square is inside C.
On the one side we have the university professors and their students, trained in Teutonic methods of research, who have sought out, collected and studied the true products of the oral traditions of the ethnic, regional and occupational groups that make up this nation.
On the other side of the ledger is the fact that he did see his niece and the woman with whom she was staying.
On his side of the road there were two farm hands, well back in a field, leaning against a plow.
On this side of the Bay, Miami Beach cops had no more legal rights than any ordinary citizen, and Shayne's pistol permit was just as good as theirs.
On the negative side of the balance sheet must be set some disappointment that the United States leadership has not been as much in evidence as hoped for.
More: On the free world side.
On the positive side, recent Federal action has largely undermined the legal sanction so long enjoyed by the segregationist position ; ;
`` On the side toward the horizon -- the southern hemisphere -- it is spring ; ;
On the surface of the ground or in water they move by undulating their body from side to side.
On September 13, 1861, in view of the decision of the Kentucky legislature to side with the Union after the occupation of Columbus by Polk, Johnston ordered Brig.
On the opposite side of the continent,
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