Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Navy brass had feared for weeks that the tragedy of Iran Air 655 would claim another victim: the controversial Aegis system aboard the U.S.S. Vincennes. How could that complex network of radar and computers have mistaken a civilian airliner for an attacking fighter plane? But when the fragmentary results of Rear Admiral William Fogarty's investigation leaked last week, blame fell not on the machines but on the men who were operating them. Under the pressure of combat, Pentagon sources say, the overwrought sailors on the Vincennes misread the radar data about the oncoming Airbus and passed faulty information...
...July 3. The ship had just skirmished with Iranian gunboats when the Airbus was spotted, and all hands were already on alert because of intelligence warnings of a possible Iranian terrorist attack over the July 4 weekend. According to the Washington Post, agitated crew members even fumbled the complex firing sequence several times before launching the missiles...
With angry protesters on the march, Hollywood is rushing Martin Scorsese' s Last Temptation of Christ into theaters this week to let filmgoers decide for themselves. Sex scenes aside, the highly unconventional depiction raises complex issues about the life and identity of Jesus. Puzzles about the Nazarene' s reality tantalize Christians and non- Christians alike -- and have intrigued New Testament experts and divided churches throughout the 20th century. See RELIGION...
...monitored the gravitational pull as the meter descended. What occurred was startling: the expected increase in gravitational force predicted by Newton was there, but it got stronger faster than expected. Either something was enhancing the force of gravity or the researchers had come upon a heretofore unknown, far more complex working of gravity itself. Or, just possibly, they had made a mistake...
Unfortunately, the implicit assumption of many higher critics is that the Gospels are too complex for the average reader to understand properly, since they mingle fact with myth and imaginative editing. The critics spin out "secret interpretations that no one knows without a Ph.D.," snaps Paul Mickey, a conservative at Duke University. Says Father John Navone of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome: "A kind of intellectualist bias has grown up; unless you are aware of the very latest academic theory about the Bible, you might as well not read it." The result is a dangerous gap between the thinking...