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...that silence belies the years of angry and often uproarious debate that Seabrook Station has inspired since the state government announced its intention to construct the nuclear facility...
...such books have generally failed to change the cultural body image, probably because they go against common sense by claiming that all beauty is merely a social construct, invented to oppress women by exhausting them with an impossible quest to imitate an unnatural ideal...
...just as quantum physicists have revealed that the world inside the atom -- with its whizzing elementary particles and clouds of electrons -- is just as grand as the big, blooming universe outside, artists who construct a magnum opus out of the microscopic have become major-leaguers...
...fundamental temper of America tends toward an existential ideal that can probably never be reached but can never be discarded: equal rights to variety, to construct your life as you see fit, to choose your traveling companions. It has always been a heterogeneous country, and its cohesion, whatever cohesion it has, can only be based on mutual respect. There never was a core America in which everyone looked the same, spoke the same language, worshipped the same gods and believed the same things...
...city councilor. Last week the commission yanked the contract back from Sumitomo in a bald effort to save American jobs, and in a move almost certain to complicate the situation, Los Angeles tentatively decided to get into the rail-car manufacturing business itself, with an option to construct a $49 million factory. All contract winners will be required to keep 70% of the labor inside the U.S. and fully 60% within the borders of Los Angeles County. Crowed city councilman Joel Wachs: "This will reverberate around the country...