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...Vatican II, for example, established the principle of collegiality-meaning that bishops share ruling power over the church with the Pope. Many theologians argue that Paul's unilateral decision on birth control makes a mockery of this principle. And they further argue that collegiality ought to be extended downward to encompass the entire church...
...progress of your situation in terms of the instantaneously huge distance between you and the airplane. Because the airplane is turning and accelerating and because your downward speed is accelerating while your forward velocity is decelerating due to wind resistance, the airplane loses the meaning it once had as a geometrical point of reference...
...notable journalistic coup was its re cent interview with the shadowy Alfred Winslow Jones, father of Wall Street's current investment sensation, the hedge fund (whose profit-at-high-risk philosophy aims at taking advantage of both upward and downward swings of the market). Touches of humorous erudition are sprinkled throughout. A regular monthly column, for example, is called "Haruspex," for the Roman soothsay ers who divined the future by poking through the entrails of sacrificial animals...
...Downward Mobility. Literary historians will no doubt observe that in Hank Tattersall, the anti-hero of Pajamas, the author has summoned up a kind of upside-down Faust, an itchy, gifted, compulsively discontented man who can do anything, but is damned if he does or he doesn't. Simpler souls may be content with noting that Tattersall has a vested interest in failure. And so does De Vries, for Hank's hegira through a series of professions allows the author to lampoon various American scenes and sideshows, sometimes with Swiftian savagery...
Sold under the trade name Palm-N'-Turn, the new containers are made of plastic and topped with a flexible cap fitted with luglike projections. The lugs fit snugly into notches in the neck of the container. To open one, an adult must press downward with the palm, then twist the cap open while the lugs are free. In recent tests, few children could do this, even when they saw jelly beans inside. Of 1,000,000 of the Palm-N'-Turn containers tested in Ontario, Canada, only 21 caps were pried free...