Word: breed
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Baseball purists tend to be a crazy breed. They live in the 1920s, wish they were in the Polo Grounds and wear black on the day Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Black Sox threw the World Series in 1919. Contrary to what these purists believe, baseball changes. Yet, maybe the average baseball fan could take a cue from them and learn that baseball in the 1980s would never survive without turning back to baseball at the turn of the century...
...crash was a painfully timed psychological setback for Europe's costly venture in commercial-jet building. The A320 is a daring new breed of plane, the world's first commercial airliner in which the pilots "fly by wire" -- controlling the engines and wing surfaces (rudder, flaps, ailerons) via computers and electronic commands rather than hydraulic or cable linkages. The fallen jet was only the sixth A320 to come off the assembly line at the Airbus Industrie consortium's plant in Toulouse. But the questions arising from the accident apply to the entire aircraft industry, for the planes of the future...
...many things -- repression, arbitrary taxation, forced signatures, the Iron Curtain, the humiliation of scientists, composers, writers. The best people were pruned away. It was like a nightmare in which a gang determined to kill all the Thoroughbred horses wandered through the stables at night with axes. Horses as a breed survived, but many of them turned out to be horses with the psychology of mice. We need to do much more to be able to restore our human breed, which has suffered such losses. We must not allow ourselves to tolerate our own patience. Priterpelost is the main obstacle...
...discrimination is hardly new, the scope of the current sentiment is alarming. Just as middle-class community groups have absorbed lessons in organizing from the civil rights movement, they seem to have turned inward. Their very sense of community, of wholeness, seems to derive from a homogeneity that can breed xenophobia. "Often communities that are the most cohesive are also hostile and fearful of outsiders," says University of Chicago Sociologist Richard Taub. "Community spirit says, 'Take care of your own.' The ethical challenge is to make people see that the world is their community...
Federal certification for a new breed of plane with swept- back wings and pusher propellers may signal big changes for aircraft design...