One is that the low cost of gathering information this way may encourage more of it, and a Hobbesian world of spiralling espionage would be bad for everybody.
With storm clouds gathering, something witchy this way comes.
Marian asks her sisters to imagine pioneers in the wilderness, in a storm, perhaps, gathering to sing in this way: "As if that would ward off any evil, I suppose.
Using cohort data with up to 20 years of follow-up, we estimated the lifetime risk of CHD in Aboriginal people of one tribal group living in a remote region of the Northern Territory of Australia, who have been experiencing a lifestyle transition from a hunter gathering way of life to a sedentary lifestyle.
Her theories of population growth as a driver of land productivity explained the data I was gathering in ways that Malthus could never do.
ReprintsTrevor Potter, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, says the ease of gathering information about voters in this way calls for a re-evaluation of the laws allowing public access to voting records.
This way of gathering knowledge about informants' general treatment assumptions was inspired by previous use of program theory – a tool to facilitate the articulation of participants' basic assumptions of how a given intervention leads to a given outcome [ 26- 29].
As for the aggressiveness of the data gathering, think about it this way: the people who raise the money are selling a cause, something they believe in way more fervently than, say, the sales staff at Best Buy believes in plasma televisions.
Delegates from the Organization of American States, a coalition of 34 nations, are gathering to discuss ways to bolster trade in North and South America.
Most of our species' recent past - hundreds of thousands of years -- was spent hunting, gathering and moving about in this way.
