First, the beneficial acclimation hypothesis (BAH), which posits that individuals acclimated to a particular environment perform better than those which have not been given the opportunity to acclimate, has been increasingly questioned and its importance debated (e.g. Leroi et al. 1994; Huey et al. 1999; Wilson and Franklin 2002; Chown and Terblanche 2007; Angilletta 2009).
Those still in need of convincing of the importance of debate as a force for social change should watch The Great Debaters, in which Denzel Washington stars as Melvin B Tolson, a real-life teacher at the largely black Wiley College in Texas, who in the 1930s coached his debating team in the face of prejudice.
You mentioned earlier the importance of debate.
Shorten is doing today's matter of public importance (MPI) debate.
He also stressed the importance of debate and investigation as a tool of learning, saying that it was impossible to reach truth without that.
Across the border, however, fewer Chinese regard India as an issue of immediate importance, and debate on the relationship is far more circumscribed.
Finally, there was a renewed belief in the importance of debate, a desire, as Grief put it, "to convince people that arguing about things could be impersonal, because it advances thought".
The Electronic Health Record issue is one of several involving the delivery and cost of medicine that are rising in importance as debate on comprehensive health-care-reform legislation enters the late stages.
Of paramount importance, the debate on expanding access cannot be detached from the need to ensure quality.
"Letters to a Young Contrarian," by Christopher Hitchens Hitchens' collection explains the importance of debate and the nature of humor, and was inspired by his own students and neatly summarizes the great contrarian's ideologies.
