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...that Lombroso was on the right track: no one is born a criminal, but many are born with "constitutional factors" that predispose them to serious crime. "There is mounting evidence," the professors write in their new book Crime and Human Nature (Simon & Schuster; $22.95), "that on the average, offenders differ from nonoffenders in physique, intelligence and personality...
...booklet estimates that several types of potential Soviet missile- killing weapons could be ready for deployment by the middle or late 1990s or after the year 2000. That does not differ greatly from the optimistic timetable for deploying comparable elements of an American Star Wars defense. The booklet also rather grudgingly concedes that in one vital area of Star Wars gear -- sensors to detect missiles and warheads across thousands of miles of space, as well as computers to aim lasers, particle beams or whatever -- "technologies . . . are currently more highly developed in the West than in the Soviet Union...
...cultural expatriation. Accordingly, it frees one from confronting certain unpleasant realities. In this context this means escaping from perhaps the most painful and historically complex aspect of blackness: the quality of life between black men and women. On this delicate subject it may be presumed that reasonable individuals may differ. Yet in the absence of morally and intellectually active role models, Harvard students' confused responses are in many cases quite understandable. Thus today in the eleventh hour of the "other America" these students' major contribution beyond filling unspecified quotas is their odious indifference to their poor and to important questions...
Soviet workers, from pipefitters to Politburo members, receive state- subsidized vacations that differ as dramatically as the jobs they perform. Prominent members of the Communist Party and leading scientists luxuriate in secluded, heavily guarded mansions, supplied courtesy of the state. Even second-rank officials usually have a country house at their disposal. Tens of millions of their less exalted countrymen employ their wits and their blat (arm twisting and family connections) to gain entry to beachfront hotels, often located on the former estates of the prerevolutionary Russian aristocracy. Another much sought- after holiday choice for active trade-union members...
...this procedure is perhaps the single most important cause now energizing conservative churches. Fundamentalists and large numbers of Evangelicals base their opposition on millenniums of Jewish and Christian teaching, according to which life in the womb is to be protected, except for severe threats to the mother. (Religious traditions differ on precisely what justifies abortion.) The issue is highly divisive. According to a Gallup poll last October, 50% of Americans think abortion should be outlawed with exceptions only for rape, incest or danger to the mother's life, a view that Falwell is willing to accept...