The philosopher and aphorist E. M. Cioran writes, "Boredom, with a bad reputation for frivolity, nonetheless allows us to glimpse the abyss from which issues the need for prayer".
Populism is on the rise, and the most difficult issues – the need for structural reforms, public debt, an overgenerous welfare system – are likely, once again, not to be discussed.
Stream computing is an effort to deal with two issues: the need for faster data handling and analysis in business and science, and the growing flood of information in digital form, including Web sites, blogs, e-mail, video and news clips, telephone conversations, transaction data and electronic sensors.
There are so many unresolved issues: the need for a citizen's income to allow those disenfranchised from the workplace to live a reasonable quality of life (and the taxation on corporate profits that this would require); the loss of peace and quiet, privacy, safety, security; and beyond all this, what will humans be doing in the future?
As, older people are more exposed to medical health issues, the need for low cost health monitoring devices [3] becomes a major part human life.
Realists emphasize power and security issues, the need for a state to maximize its expected self-interest and, above all, their view of the international arena as a kind of anarchy, in which the will to power enjoys primacy.
Regardless of how complicated grief is classified, the discussion highlights a larger issue: the need for a more nuanced look at bereavement.
Independent of that issue, the need for less toxic drugs is clear: Lopping off a woman's breast or breasts, or part of those, is crude and simple therapy.
This study has raised a number of important issues including the need for consistent recommendations and guidelines about postpartum primary care for all women in Australia.
But they share common ground on a variety of issues, notably the need for urgent action on climate change.
Any single capital project above $10 million must be approved in a public referendum, but the three separate bond issues bypassed the need for a vote.
