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...reads the January-March Emergency Preparedness Digest. This headline overlaps a picture of a kneeling figure in a yellow-orange spacesuit, the kind sported by Dustin Hoffman in the recent film Outbreak. The suit on the cover has more of a bubble shaped helmet, though, like the little plastic helmets of Lego spacemen...
...Digest lurks on the bottom floor of Widener, near the military science division. On a nearby shelf lies Jane's Intelligence Review, which promises to survey the hot spots of emerging wars across the globe. Jane's has some charming features of its own, like a monthly record of all of the space launches in the world...
...remarkable thing happened. I was photocopying several pages from the Emergency Preparedness Digest when I spotted a smallish demure woman copying Jane's Defense Weekly. In fact, she was copying issue after issue. I sauntered over to her copy machine and began to riffle through one of the issues she was done with. "I was wondering what the readership of this sort of magazine was like," I explained to the woman. She fixed me an odd look and replied that she was only doing research, she didn't know...
...read my question about readership in more than one way. It was clear the magazine meant more to her than research--she had too many copies of the same magazine, and her copying was too earnest. Then again, she might have mistaken me for a regular reader of the Digest, and decided there was nothing to talk about. Hey! I was only doing research...
THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE DIVORCE MORE difficult to obtain should know that this approach was tried before with disastrous results. In the middle of the 6th century A.D., the Roman Emperor Justinian I outlawed no-fault divorce in his famous Digest. For hundreds of years before that action, Romans had both divorce for cause and no-fault divorce. Justinian, as a good Christian, felt that it was his duty to curtail the loose practice of divorce and thereby bring law into closer conformity with the Gospels. The Romans, many of whom at that time were not Christians, were so incensed...