As the modern mind developed, people performed better not only as technicians and scientists but also as administrators and executives.

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When the modern mind shifted away from a designed world to one governed by blind, evolutionary processes, the classical free-market consensus began to erode.

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The profit motive authored all this bounty: modern medicine, ease of travel, mind-blowing entertainment, and vast arrays of culinary choices and comforts customary in modern homes.

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The best chronicler of modern mavericks, to my mind, is Michael Lewis.

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Today it looks classic, in much the same way that such masterpieces of midcentury modernism as, say, Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building or Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim long ago ceased to look "modern, " at least in the informal sense that most people have in mind when they use the word.

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Skiers with a mind for history would be remiss not to visit one of these monuments to modern ski history.

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It is vital, of course, that these tests, which were enunciated in 1997, be considered with modern technology such as Google, Twitter, Flickr, and other Internet-based modes of information dissemination in mind.

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In her mind, she holds an alternative map of the centre of the city: one which, instead of modern buildings and highways crowded with traffic, has ancient walls, baths and residences dating back to Roman, Hellenistic and even prehistoric times.

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