This is a blessed exception, perhaps, to the art world principle of commercial capitalization on a public relations opportunity.
The construction of the fly and mammalian brains seems to follow the same "small world" principle, that of high local clustering of neurons, together with long-range connections.
"The sports world seems to think it's an island where everyone who lands on it is playing 'Survivor' and that real-world principles don't or shouldn't apply," he said.
One way of answering this objection head on is to identify principles that, given a distance function on worlds, constrain the distances between worlds and sets of worlds, principles perhaps powerful enough to identify a unique extension.
Scientists have penetrated deeply into the physical world with principles that emphasize parsimony and uniformity: Ockham's razor, the least effort principle, the anthropic principle, etc.
Given the state of the world, these principles will seem very demanding to those who are affluent but the alternative would be principles that place an even greater burden on those who are worst-off.
This carried to the highest point in the world the principles of industrial arbitration and judicial imposition of welfare and justice through wage and working-condition awards.
President Bush's masterly way of reaching out to Muslims at home and abroad has displayed before the world our principles of tolerance.
But broadcasting the spectacle of American politics could help spread to the Arab world the principles, practices and spirit of American democracy.
"Whenever America acts in the world, our principles must be certain, our intentions beyond doubt, our strength be unchallenged," he says, according to a transcript provided by the White House.
