Importantly, the application of Shariah law to modern finance is practical and pragmatic.
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Add to the modern mindset the practical needs of a mobile workforce that will have more than 40% of its members telecommuting at least part-time by 2016, and the very idea of segregating work and home devices is a finite solution at best.
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John Maynard Keynes, as opposed to modern Keynesians, was a practical man and was quite clear in his earlier writings about the importance of a monetary standard.
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Their careers reveal the modern fusion of theoretical and practical finance: both had an interest in the stockmarket since childhood, and after their early work on options-pricing both supplemented their academic incomes with Wall Street consultancies.
It would seem hugely more practical, in the modern world, for the government to extract money as precisely as it can from the rich and use the proceeds for the welfare of the poor.
Two recent studies caught my eye, because they highlight some actual good science in trying to adapt two longstanding, ancient practices Yoga and Tai Chi into the modern era so they can be used for practical medical purposes.
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Yet in practical matters Mormonism seems well adapted to the modern world, for Mormons are, by many measures, disproportionately successful.
Those sorts of approaches, very practical but almost revolutionary approaches in these days of modern policing.
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The concept of burning away tumors with electric current dates back a century, but it took modern imaging machines to make through-the-needle tumor-burning accurate enough to be safe and practical.
Meanwhile, Breillat frames the legend with scenes of a pair of modern girls (Marilou Lopes-Benites and Lola Giovanetti) who read it aloud, infusing the rational openness and practical troubles of French daily life with the dark mysteries of distant times.
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