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...there was gridlock. Celebrities waiting for their cars were being delayed because the valet parking people couldn't start Ed Begley's environmentally safe electric car! He hastened over to them and gave them instructions. "They never get it right!" he said good-naturedly. "They always forget the code..." Finally the metallic silver car was roused from its standby mode and Begley and his wife sped off silently, looking like the Jetsons headed home after a night at the Oscars...
...thousands of Nepali women who endure social injustice and discrimination, most of it sanctified by religion?and ignored by law. This Hindu kingdom in the Himalayas is a man's world, and it seems determined to stay that way. A two-year attempt to change the civil code and go some way toward putting women on an equal footing with men has been bogged down in the national assembly for more than a month by opposition protests against government corruption and, along with other legislation, is unlikely to be passed. This, despite extensive debate over four sessions of the assembly...
...speech--so it deals with the written word by converting it into the nuts and bolts of a familiar phonetic language. According to prevailing theory, the reading centers of the brain break words down into sound units known as phonemes and recognize them as the elements of a phonetic code. Then the centers assemble that code to derive meaning from the symbols on the page. Most of us learn to do this seamlessly by the time we're seven years...
...results of Cheney's vice-presidential style have been impressive. The Bush administration has carried out an unexpectedly-successful first two months, characterized by efficiency and effectiveness, and much of this can be attributed to the man in the backseat, "Back Seat," doubling as Cheney's fitting Secret Service code name during the Ford Administration...
...morality debate" until we're blue in the face, but it won't matter. Morality, as of now, is still subjective; until a moral philosopher comes along and cements the whole thing, and all humanity says "Oh, now I get it!" and we have an absolute moral code to follow, it will continue to be subjective...