Word: barriers
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...fact that families would be divided and a whole people would be left with no exit. That a city of 3,000,000-2,000,000 of them sealed in the Western sector -should be slashed in two by wire and watchtowers still seems fantastic. But to Berliners the barrier has become oddly familiar, a topic of conversation only on the still frequent occasions when a would-be escapee is shot down while trying to make it to the West...
Last week the Supreme Court vigorously reasserted the U.S.'s historic barrier between church and state. By a resounding eight-man majority, it declared unconstitutional the ambitious aid programs of both Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The decision (Lemon v. Kurtzman) struck many legal observers as a sign that a number of other current aid schemes would come in for close scrutiny. In its probable impact on schools, Lemon is likely to be surpassed only by the court's historic decisions on racial desegregation. It seemed certain to accelerate the end of the comprehensive parochial school as millions...
Troublesome Standard? With some pain, Burger conceded that the "line of [church-state] separation, far from being a 'wall,' is a blurred, indistinct and variable barrier." His reasoning was too blurred for Justices William O. Douglas, Hugo Black, Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, who dissented in the college-aid decision. None of them could see why Government support of secular services should be more entangling in schools than colleges. All thought that the court should have banned aid to colleges too; Justice Byron White, the lone supporter of school-level aid, argued that if colleges meet the Allen...
...next thing I knew, he was throwing daggers at her," said Richard. "What we didn't know," said Elizabeth, "was that the knife thrower was saying: Is anyone brave enough to take a chance with my daggers?' Those knives really thumped around. Richard suddenly jumped over the barrier into the ring. I shouted to him to stop. I don't know what he thought he could do." What he could do was get into the act -with a balloon in his mouth and another in his hand for the man to burst. "That knife thrower must have...
While an earthbound observer could not see such a deeply submerged island of hydrogen, the three men concluded, he probably could detect some indirect evidence of its existence. Because the huge mass would act as a barrier against the hot, rising currents characteristic of the Jovian atmosphere, the area above the solidified hydrogen would be relatively calm and free of the white ammonia clouds that cover much of the planet. As a result, the observer would be able to see much farther into the atmosphere and perceive the deep red at its lower depths...