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...doesn't specifically talk about every single context that comes up," she said. "I think if questions come up, we can certainly clarify. The idea is to be helpful--not to catch people...
...people who write me 10 e-mails a day, sign them "love" and remember to ask about my date last weekend or what's going on with my family. It was strange and wonderful to look across a bar table and see five fellow volunteers in a completely new context. I've realized that people surprise each other in negative and positive ways. At the same time, I remembered how terrific it can be to come home to roommates who are incredibly different, to avoid becoming immersed in my self-contained world...
...this context of accepted scientific procedures, single occurrences present a knotty problem. Their "truth" cannot be denied, but how can we use their existence to assert any generality rather than an explanation for a singular circumstance? For specific events of history--the rise, domination and extinction of dinosaurs, for example--we seek no such generality, and specific narrations for bounded events supply the explanations we seek. Thus a particular asteroid, striking the earth 65 million years ago and leaving evidence of its impact off the Yucatan Peninsula, probably triggered a global extinction that sealed the fate of dinosaurs and many...
...Supreme Court last week upheld an Erie, Pa., ordinance that required nude dancers to wear a minimal amount of clothing--namely pasties and a G-string. The context would be comical, were it not for the serious threat the ruling poses to basic principles of free speech...
...students asking Buchanan questions were not the only ones taking statements out of context...