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...course, these two actions make little sense. Yet the hecklers' sensibility comes through only in this characteristic illogic. People in Boston may no longer be sure who to lash out at, only that you have to lash out at somebody or else meekly and against your proud, cultural instincts, crawl back under the thumb of the "have-gots...
...course, these two actions make little sense. Yet the hecklers' sensibility comes through only in this characteristic illogic. People in Boston may no longer be sure who to lash out at, only that you have to lash out at somebody or else meekly and against your proud, cultural instincts, crawl back under the thumb of the "have-gots...
...Torpid Crawl. That was as far as he got. At the A.B.A.'s 99th annual meeting in Atlanta last week, Spann won by a lopsided 260-to-59 vote in the governing House of Delegates.* But the Jeffers insurgency was a signal that recent efforts to move the A.B.A. onto a moderately activist course may have slowed to a torpid snail's crawl. Reported TIME Correspondent David Beckwith: "It was almost as if the bar was withdrawing from its leadership role in public discussion of today's issues." Delegates sidetracked a resolution opposing restrictions on abortion...
...less than a foot high. The authors' implied comparison of Kentucky caving with the climbing of Everest is a mild hype, neither necessary nor justified; Everest is far deadlier, and an expedition there requires several arduous weeks, not the 24 to 36 hours of a Flint Ridge cave crawl. But caving is difficult enough to call for a rare sort of courage and endurance. A common technique, horrifying to imagine, is to exhale in order to reduce the size of the rib cage, then squiggle along, unable to breathe deeply until the squeezeway widens. To do this...
...million insect species, of which fewer than a million have been identified and named (there are, for example, more than 300,000 species of beetles alone). Insects range in size from those no larger than a dust particle, and a species of hairy winged beetle that can crawl through the eye of a needle, to the Atlas moth of India, which has a 12-in. wingspan, almost as large as an oriole's. Brian Hocking of Canada's University of Alberta gives an estimate in his book Six-Legged Science that the insect population of the world is at least...