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...environmental measures without congressional approval, as long as the public has been given adequate warning and a chance to speak out on the issue. Members of the oil industry know they face an uphill battle against the new emissions regulations; analysts aren't holding their breath for consumers to abandon public health concerns in favor of shoring up the already considerable fortunes of the world's oil syndicates...
...other, more imposing force working against Kanfer is the familiar truism: he who is funniest while performing is rarely appealing when the camera stops. In Groucho's case, his wit didn't abandon him off the set, but the man Kanfer discovers behind the joker is no fun at all. By the time he breaks up with Chico and Harpo, Groucho has become a crabby miser, shamefully manipulative of his wives and children. You wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have this guy as a member...
...Taking for its targets science, government, literature, fashion and the modern institution of poker, 3M1W hopes to offend and mock, revealing the hidden absurdities behind our carnivalesque world. It may be well worth it to abandon Chemistry or Ec for a night and check out this promising show...
...support it, or what if she is too young to care for it? What if the infant is sickly and seems likely to languish no matter how well it's looked after? Humans agonize over these situations, but mothers throughout the animal kingdom show a surprising willingness to abandon or even kill such luckless young rather than pour energy down a bottomless reproductive well...
...impulse to commit infanticide is indeed part of our genetic legacy, can it be forgiven? Or does such a crime remain a crime no matter how strong the primal drives behind it? Anthropologists take the long view--at least when the crime is abandonment and not murder. "I think we have to re-examine the harsh penalties we place on young, uneducated women who abandon infants," says anthropologist Helen Fisher of Rutgers University. "They were dancing to primitive, natural rhythms, and they got out of synch...