Word: axioms
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Under normal circumstances, it takes a case of national importance to rile the Supreme Court during its summer recess. But in the words of an old axiom about capital punishment, "death is different." And so, on a sleepy mid-August Monday, Aug. 17, the court - over a strong dissent - dusted off an antique tool, unused for nearly half a century, to force a new hearing into the slow-rolling fate of a Georgia death-row prisoner named Troy Davis. In the process, the court has opened up new questions about the death penalty: most crucially, how far the courts must...
...been killed at the St. Fermin festival; the last to be fatally gored was a 22-year-old American, Matthew Tassio, in 1995. Witnesses said Tassio was knocked to the ground by a bull, then got up again and was struck by a second animal - a violation of the axiom that runners should remain on the ground if they get knocked down. Many people are injured each year, by both the animals and the crush of sprinters frantically making their way to the bullfighting arena on slippery cobblestones. Observers say foreigners - especially, for some reason, Americans - are most likely...
...most dangerous team in the playoffs is most often the one with nothing to lose. The Harvard men’s volleyball team will look to prove this axiom correct tonight, as it enters the first round of the EIVA Championship seeded last in the eight-team tournament...
...women who choose to have cesareans, but little attention has been paid to the vast number of moms who are forced to have them. More than 9 out of 10 births following a C-section are now surgical deliveries, proving that "once a cesarean, always a cesarean"--an axiom thought to be outmoded in the 1990s--is alive and kicking. Indeed, the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN), a grass-roots group, recently called 2,850 hospitals that have labor and delivery wards and found that 28% of them don't allow VBACs, up from 10% in its previous survey...
...central conversation in the media business these days is how to preserve and provide quality journalism and in-depth reporting at a time when consumers and readers expect to get them for free on the Internet. Information may want to be free, as the Web axiom suggests, but sending correspondents to Baghdad and Kabul and everywhere in between costs money. Information may want to be free, but knowledge and reporting and insight are expensive--and valuable...