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...through its lack of contact with Peking, seemed by default to side with Moscow in the Sino-Soviet dispute. Nixon and he agreed that the U.S. was not the prime adversary of either China or Russia, but that each was the other's worst foe. In that situation, they saw a possibility for maneuver. In measured moves, Nixon began relaxing Washington's rigid policy toward China...
...obligation to serve the designated time in the community," says Edelstein, "would be a moral instead of a legal one." But he suggests that the pledge could be given some extra force by a clause providing for a higher interest rate or other penalty should a doctor default on his promise to remain in the town...
...persuasive 1969 book Come, Let Us Play God, the late biophysicist Leroy Augenstein argued that man takes the role of God by default or design and has always done so. Ecologically, he changes the very face of the earth: first with plows, then with dams, insecticides and pollution, he has seriously upset the balance of nature. His humane instincts and scientific curiosity team up to preserve life so well that the world faces a population crisis. Moreover, by extending the lives of those with defective genes, science increases the chance that damaging genes will be passed down to ever-larger...
...they been treated from a detached critical point of view, both these scenes would have been embarrassing exercises in heavy-handed social commentary. But seen through Antonio's eyes, even the most obvious political points are somehow ingenuous and therefore palatable. His witless incomprehension makes him a hero by default. All the characters are mere sticks, but Antonio is an appealing stick. In a world of universally despicable characters passivity becomes a positive virtue...
...Pannetone of Eliot, Geonge Heywood of Leverett, and Walter Morris of Leverett were all advanced by default to semi-final matches today at 4 p.m. The hungry crowd of 50, who had packed the sweaty room, roared as each fighter's second raised his athlete's hand in victory...