Decentralized conflicts with many different groups, often with different objectives, engaging in combat against one another as well as against a common enemy are components of ______.
a. new wars
b. old wars
c. cold wars
d. terrorism
a. new wars
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A. hyperflexive society B. hypoflexive society C. automative society D. reflexive society
Improvements in this reduced gangrene, blood poisoning, and other infections that had killed most persons having surgery:
A) surgical quality cutlery B) trained surgeons C) sanitation D) anesthetics
The author points out that the scientific spirit and the democratic spirit
a. are antagonistic to one another. b. are very similar in their approach to understanding human misery. c. have little to do with sociology. d. cannot really be compared since they cover such widely divergent areas of life.
Which of the following is NOT a contemporary use of deception?
A. The police do not make a promise that later can be denied or modified. B. The suspect is not told that the person asking the questions is a police officer. C. The person, or suspect, is not told the truth about why he or she is being questioned. D. The police provide a justification to the suspect for the act; for example, "the victim got what she deserved."