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...life of the mind in America, 1997, is not what it was in Britain four decades ago. But, with some fiddling, the concept still applies. For literary intellectuals, substitute "Washington," in the metaphorical sense of the world of public affairs that has, to some extent, replaced literary intellectual life as a focus of ambition and status for brainy nonscientists. For science itself, substitute "Silicon Valley," in the metaphorical sense of the entrepreneurial world that is steadily encroaching on the labs and clinics of scientific academia. And the "two cultures" problem remains...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: TIME's Sally Donnelly reports that the Supreme Court decision to reject doctor-assisted suicide as a constitutional right will only shift the battle to the states. "This court is very reluctant to expand the concept of right to privacy, but they're not retrenching either. That suggests that the states, particularly those with constitutions which protect the right to privacy, will still have the freedom to argue this out individually." Under the unanimous decision today, the Court upheld state laws in New York and Washington that make it a crime for doctors to administer lethal drugs...
...Canadian unity in Quebec and has tried to persuade the country's provincial leaders to recognize Quebec as a "distinct society" in the country's constitution. "It's a question of dignity," Chretien told TIME last week. "The fact that 85% of Quebeckers speak French is not a concept. It's a reality...
Murphy adds that the process grows even more tedious and expensive when professors have to deal with publishers unfamiliar with the concept of the sourcebook...
...Revolution of 1776 started on the East Coast, but the ranking Revolt of 1996 began on the West Coast. A Stanford-led coalition of students protested the concept that colleges can be ranked...