High modernism

These reactions can be limited or prevented by proper plant design, coiTcct mixing of the burner gas, and keeping the catalyst activity high. Modern plants convert about 97% of NH3 to NO. 

These three prescriptions cover a span of nearly 2,500 years, but they have something fundamental in common They call for the use of natural products to cure illness. There have been relatively few times and few cultures in which natural products did not play a major role in the healing arts. Even today, in the highly modern world of the 21st century, extracts from plants and other organisms continue to he widely used in both developed and in developing nations. 

As with other stable isotope proxies, to infer paleoelevations or the presence/absence of a plateau, the isotope geochemist analyzing fossils has several options 1) Look high. Use a fossil sequence collected at high modern elevations (e.g., in a high mountain range... 

High modernism was about "interests as well as faith. Its carriers, even when they were capitalist entrepreneurs, required state action to realize their plans. In most cases, they were powerful officials and heads of state. They tended to prefer certain forms of planning and so-... 

The troubling features of high modernism derive, for the most part, from its claim to speak about the improvement of the human condition with the authority of scientific knowledge and its tendency to disallow other competing sources of judgment. 

If one were required to pinpoint the "birth of twentieth-century high modernism, specifying a particular time, place, and individual—... 

But high modernism, unimpeded by liberal political economy, is best grasped through the working out of its high ambitions and its consequences. It is to this practical terrain in urban planning and revolutionary discourse that we now turn. 

High modernism implies, as we have seen, a rejection of the past as a model to improve upon and a desire to make a completely fresh start. The more utopian the high modernism, the more thoroughgoing its implied critique of the existing society. Some of the most vituperative... 

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