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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...and internal processes. Programming objects, in other words, are "black boxes" (an engineering term). The programmer is unable to tell how the obje... ... Suk Hwang). Cloning is often confused with other advances in bio- medicine and bio-engineering - such as genetic selection. It cannot - in itself -... ... thousands of species for well over 10,000 years now. Genetic modification and bio-engineering are as natural as agriculture. Human beings are a pa... ... and to increase its market shares. Admittedly, the line is very thin: when does a Marketing Plan become criminal? Arrange for a "rise in entry bar... ..."promotional warfare" by "attacking shares of others". - This is when the gist of a marketing, lobbying, or advertising campaign is to capture the m... ...y owning, controlling, colluding with, or intimidating suppliers and distributors, marketing channels and wholesale and retail outlets into not col... ...dels. Not all celebrities are narcissists. Still, some of them surely are. We all search for positive cues from people around us. These cues reinf... ..., and inclinations were no longer useful in this new environment. This led women to search for a new definition, to find a new niche. They were lite... ...ion of other social forces, in permanent civil war). It was a utopian movement in search of a utopia. Many of the elements of a utopia were there...

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