Word: darwinian
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...another look at the cases of abuse victims who kill their abusers. Just before Christmas, Missouri's conservative Republican Governor John Ashcroft commuted the life sentences of two women who claimed they had killed their husbands in self-defense. After 20 years of trying, these women have made a Darwinian claim for mercy: Victims of perpetual violence should be forgiven if they turn violent themselves...
...posthumous man unravels his tale, he twists and turns around an extraordinary tangle of ideas: the nature of artifice, the Darwinian crisis of faith, the courtship of History and Romance. Invoking his ancestor Sir Walter Raleigh, and setting much of the action in the New Elizabethan Age of the 1950s, he fashions a narrative as fiendishly witty and sinuous and fluent as an Elizabethan sonnet. But at its heart is a simple, all but unanswerable question: "What is the difference between belief and make-belief?" Some readers may be exhausted by the pinwheeling frenzy of paradoxes and parallels; others, though...
...hangover from the feel-good '80's, candidates who spend too much money advertising themselves arouse many people's suspicions. However, if less affluent candidates accept the system as it is, they end up spending all their money on insufficient PR and then dropping out, a form of Darwinian natural selection of the rich and famous that leaves the voters no choice but to support a style-over-substance candidate because he's the only one left...
...more tons of steel and tinted glass you ride around in. Little people, if they drive at all, drive little cars, and you know without getting out your high school physics book what happens when big cars hit little cars. Perhaps it is fitting in some Darwinian way; we lowly ones in our eggshells offer minimal resistance as the Trumps and Keatings crunch over us, car phones in hand, on the way to their bankruptcy hearings and leveraged buyouts. Indeed, it seems part of the American Dream to become rich enough to wrap oneself in so much tanklike armor that...
Based on these findings, Michaelson concluded that "changes in the overall synthesis of each plasma protein are mediated by selective growth and death among these specialized cells in the liver. In short, plasma protein synthesis fits our description of the Darwinian process, organized by cellular selection among a diverse collection of specialized cells...