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In addition to regular art exhibitions, this wildly abstract structure features Osaka’s IMAX wide-screen theater.
published in 1991, [ 4 ] which used a extensive search strategy for Medline and Embase up to 1990; 2) a direct search of Medline from 1966 to August 1995 using the full text terms homeop*, homoeop*, and the Mesh terms homoeopathy, homoeopathy, and alternative medicine and screening of all citations found; 3) contacts with homeopathic researchers, institutions reporting on homeopathic research, homeopathic manufacturers and follow-up on suggestions from these contacts; 4) searching several extensive homeopathic and complementary medicine registries including those of the Woodward Foundation (USA); CISCOM (RCCM, London); AMED (British Library); HomInform (Glasgow, Scotland); IDAG (Amersfoort, Netherlands); and CCRH (India) as well as several individual collections; 5) attending homeopathic meetings and searching the conference proceedings, abstract ebooklets, and indexes from meetings and homeopathic books; 6) the references of reviews and trials found; 7) and additional on-line searches of Medline and Embase from 1989 to October 1995.
The Post doesn't make the point, but this is all too typical: Something abstract called the "corporation" is fined while the actual executives (think what that word means: people who get things done) go merrily along.
There is of course a huge difference between a physical light bulb and an abstract computer idea, and the revolution in information technology really has, as Alan Greenspan puts it, "altered the structure of the way the American economy works."
But if the evidence of common speech is any guide, the idea of God has been rapidly devolving from the generalized to the particular, from the awesomely abstract to the intensely (even idiosyncratically) personal.
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