Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pressure on law enforcement is immense. But get-tough policies can mean getting tough on innocent people--even sending them to death row. With crime rates falling, Americans don't want to go soft on crime, but their sense of fairness is being sorely tested. Communities are beginning to ask how prosecutors and police can be effective while still respecting citizens' rights. Now it's time for law-enforcement officials to start taking the question seriously too. "The criminal-justice system works," says Jed Stone, who represented Rolando Cruz in an early trial, "only if the ordinary citizen believes...
...Like surfers trying to catch a wave, balloonists try to ride jet streams, high-altitude currents that usually move from west to east. "It's magical what pilots can achieve," says balloonmaker Don Cameron. "In competitions with hot-air balloons, they'll set a target 10 miles away and ask pilots to drop a marker on it, and the pilots will get within a meter of it." The Orbiter 3 crew hit its target on the fourth day of the journey and sped along in a jet stream at 60 m.p.h. They ventured outside the cabin once, when the balloon...
...light of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gay men and lesbians, the proposed bill has sparked controversy about the role of the armed forces on campus...
...evolution is pushed out of the schools, says Kluger, ?information will be withheld from students and the long-range potential will be to crimp scientific development.? There may be another casualty: the enlightening possibility of reconciling the two realms. Science and religion may observe the same phenomena, but they ask different questions of the world they seek to explain. Besides, if one reads the creation in Genesis closely, isn?t there both a theological and an evolutionary progression to the events there described...
...more neighborhood and less theme park, Lombardi's serves the best pizza in the city (a close runner-up is Patsy Grimaldi's, just under the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge). For $12.50, a large basic pie (mozzarella, cheese, basil) feeds two. If the weather's warm enough, ask to sit on the roof...