Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legitimacy rested on its higher "Jewish morals," or on some concept of perfection, they would have sealed their own destruction by implying that an imperfect Israel has no right to exist. Fortunately, they acted somewhat more carefully than Sharfstein. Israel's "Declaration of Independence" explicitly states that the creation of the new state would destroy age-old double standards by "lifting the Jewish people to equality in the family of nations." As Normon Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary magazine writes, "the purpose of Israel was to normalize the Jewish people, not to perfect them. The Jewish state was to create...
Technically, though, Morris' creation was not a virus, but a `worm,' a less dangerous program that reproduces itself and slows down the host system, but does not hurt the data...
...facilities said a programming error, instructing the virus to reproduce itself in every 10th--instead of 10,000th--computer, led to its explosive growth and crashing of several systems. Without that error, friends said, the virus would have harmlessly lodged in a few computers, allowing Morris to track his creation's progress...
ISRAEL was never supposed to be just another nation. Its creation in 1948 signified the triumph of the Jewish people over centuries of oppression and the perseverance of Jewish morals amidst persistent bigotry. Israel was to be a democracy in the chaotic Middle East, a haven for and common bond between Jews across the world, a "light unto the nations...
...constitutional issues that disturb Estonians go to the heart of the balance of power between Moscow and the federated republics. Part of Gorbachev's plan to democratize his country involves the creation of a Congress of the People's Deputies, which would wield legislative power over everything from constitutional changes to adjustments in state boundaries. Estonian concern focuses on a bloc of 750 legislators in the 2,250-member Congress who are to be elected by pan-Soviet organizations, such as artists' unions, veterans groups or the Communist Youth League, rather than by voters in local constituencies. Legal experts...