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...Tangled Wing aims for that same elusive understanding as E O Wilson's On Human Nature, Carl Sagan's The Dragons of Eden, and Robert Andrey's The Territorial Imperative, and it touches on the subjects of many other less sweeping books which have tried to solve the age-old debate between "nature" and "nurture...
...science-minded daughter Ada, Countess of Lovelace, whose friend and collaborator Charles Babbage was the eccentric genius of the Analytical Engine. She also lives on in what is known as Lady Lovelace's Objection, which refers not to any romantic advances by Babbage but to the age-old question of whether a machine can be made to think. Objected Lady Lovelace: "The Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform...
Santas have different reasons for donning a bright red suit and stuffing themselves with pillow to freeze on a windy sidewalk or overheat in a stuffy department store. But all of them have an answer to the age-old question. "Santa, how did you come over from Filene's so quickly...
...containing them." After Dalla Chiesa's assassination, and the flouting of the state's authority that came with it, even containment seems impossible. Last weekend, for example, four new names, including that of a 15-year old boy, were added to the endless list of victims in Palermo's age-old battle for survival against those gangsters who, in John Paul's words, "have spilled so much blood, [and] caused so many dead on your streets...
...January 1973, the bishops were shaken by a second event, the Supreme Court decision allowing abortion on demand in most circumstances. This legal challenge to the age-old Catholic teaching that abortion is equivalent to murder forced the bishops to adopt a style of political propaganda and maneuver that, until then, had been more characteristic of liberal Protestants. For Catholicism, the abortion decision was a bold attack on human life and dignity. The radical change produced reflection upon other "life" issues, especially the arms race. Says Bernardin: "If you take a strong stand against abortion as the unjust taking...