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...want to marry at all. At the opposite end are couples in Louisiana and Arizona, the two states that offer covenant marriages, who have opted to back up their marriage vows with tougher, legally mandated divorce standards. In between are lovers at every point on the continuum, from those who live together briefly before marriage as a test of compatibility to those who wed only after long and searching courtships. Many of these are strategies to avoid divorce, says David Popenoe, professor of sociology and co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University...
...dinner in the afterlight, looking out over Vineyard Sound. We peered toward the mainland and one of us said, "There's going to be a storm." A dark, ominous haze had gathered - disorienting indeed. The water of the Sound had become indistinguishable from the air - all was an inky continuum, a squid's cloud. Only when we looked higher, into the upper air, did we see vestiges of light. We lit a fire and talked awhile, and night descended. The storm never came. We went to sleep...
...University has 268 alarms, all of which are monitored out of HUPD's Garden Street headquarters by a system called CONTINUUM, which went online in August...
...note that attorney Steven Wise, the self-proclaimed champion of animal rights [AMERICAN SCENE, March 13], does not defend the rights of all animals. Instead, Wise has created his own non-Darwinian continuum to argue for legal rights for only certain animals--the more a species is like humans, the more deserving it is of legal rights. Yet there is a danger in this approach. For it means the less like us, the less likely that legal rights would be granted. We don't live in an "us vs. them" world. We live in a world of "us and them...
...Wise argues the world, for purposes of the law, as a Darwinian continuum, in which humans should exercise a seemly self-effacement -- considering, among other things, that "our DNA and that of chimpanzees is more than 98.3 percent identical." The world is populated by thousands of species, ranging from humans to insects. "I don't argue that the great majority of animals should have legal rights," Wise says -- only those entitled to them by reason of mental powers and self-awareness. It seems to be all right to boil lobsters, by the way, since they have no brain cortex...