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...Custom suggests that the latitude given to expressions of audience disapproval usually varies from one setting to another -- less latitude is given in a religious service than in the classroom and less latitude in the classroom than in a public speech or an open meeting. Regardless of the setting, however, sponsors of a meeting have discretion to enforce reasonable rules designed to make it easier for the speakers to speak and the audience to listen, provided the audience is warned in advance. Even if the sponsors have imposed no rules, expressions of disapproval begin to infringe on free speech when...
...scientists, putting the demands of native custom before those of scientific knowledge is a disturbing trend. Ancient bones often provide the sole link to prehistoric societies, giving evidence of diet, brain size, stature, disease and longevity. Should scientists be deprived of the right to study these precious fossils, says Anthropologist Milford Wolpoff of the University of Michigan, "it would be an unparalleled tragedy." Studies of aboriginal bones are yielding some particularly important findings. Scientists had long assumed that the original Australians migrated to the continent from Indonesia about 10,000 years ago and, isolated from the influence of other societies...
Neither current law nor current custom supports such an array of rights, however. On the contrary, a pregnant woman's right of decision is generally considered paramount, at least during the first three months. Even so, says Professor Maurice Mahoney of Yale's medical school, every embryo deserves a certain respect. "I see it as an individual human being," he says, "not with the same claims and rights as a newborn baby, but at least as an individual who calls upon me for some kind of protectiveness...
Ghetto is an Italian word, but it is defined in German. In 1939 the Third Reich took the obsolete custom of separating Jews from the human community and gave it new meaning. No longer were there merely segregated facilities, suffocating laws and a curfew. By the '40s isolation had become a euphemism for what Nobel Laureate Nelly Sachs calls "Habitations of death . . . staining each minute with a different darkness...
...demand for our state's beaches" and held that they are a "public trust" to which private-property rights must give way. The theory is a groundbreaking, potentially sweeping one. Courts in Oregon, Florida and Hawaii have also upheld beach access under the more legally traditional "doctrine of custom." When the beaches have always been open to the public, these courts have held, they must remain so. In Hawaii a tough law forced even the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, one of the world's poshest resorts, to build an access path to the beach for the public...