Word: banging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some evolution has taken place in this crippled genre. Take last month's "Losing Isaiah." Hmm, you think, could be about death, kidnapping or even a slam-bang lost-in-the-big-city caper. But no, "Losing Isaiah" draws its plot from the topical problem of surrogate motherhood. How did I know? Luckily, I saw the subheading: "Who Decides What Makes a Mother?" Yes, these titles have become so vague that a whole other title of unlimited length--defeating the entire original objective--becomes necessary...
When did the universe start? Our confusion about this might stem from the arbitrary assumption that the cosmos was created by a single Big Bang at a single point in time. What we should ask is, When did the last Big Bang take place, and what did we inherit from the previous universe? There may never have been a beginning, only an endless series of Big Bangs and Big Crunches--an endless chain of past and future universes, born, collapsed and recreated, each inheriting something from the previous one, an eternal cosmic drama taking place in an N-dimensional space...
...much we still don't know. Astronomer Christopher Impey, commenting on a new theory of the age of the cosmos that would make it 2 billion years younger than some of the stars it contains, said, ``You can't be older than your ma.'' But if the Big Bang was the child and the galaxies in the cosmos the mother, then the age difference between the stars and the Big Bang makes sense. I believe that matter existed in the cosmos, or whatever, prior to the Big Bang. However it happened, I believe God had his hand...
...universe might well ``cycle,'' with a Big Bang followed by a Big Crunch followed by another Big Bang. Some stars could miss the crunch and continue to exist in the subsequent cycle. Thus some stars could very well be older than this universe...
...growth by increasing the attractiveness of American labor. Encouraging an increase in the amount of human capital will not only make American labor attractive to American firms but foreign firms as well, luring high-wage, high-quality jobs to this country from across the planet. It gives us more bang for the diminishing number of bucks at our government's disposal and also (to the extent that the credits or tax cuts are focused on stimulating more and better grammar and high school education) deals with the growing problems of economic inequality and inequality of opportunity in this country...