Word: existing
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...rationalists have a weakness for rationalizing. A man who considers himself a genius of the highest order also believes that such elite members of the race are never recognized. In another story Lem overloads the probability theory to suggest playfully that no one should exist. Each man's chances of being, says Lem's Professor Kouska, is a "teragigamegamulticentillion-to-one shot." In physics, one chance in a centillion is considered an impossibility because there are fewer than a centillion seconds before the end of the universe. The origin of this fact is unclear...
Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk's curious appearance at the United Nations last week, on behalf of a government that he had never liked and that had ceased to exist, can be explained simply: he hates the Vietnamese more than he hated the Khmer Rouge regime of Premier Pol Pot, which had ruled Cambodia for four years until its overthrow by Vietnamese-backed rebel forces last week. For most of that time, Sihanouk had been kept under virtual house arrest in Phnom-Penh. Two weeks ago, Pol Pot sent for the Prince and asked...
...Many simply preferred to collect the special federal stipends available to them when they filled out forms that officially recognized their mental impairments -and further ostracized them. Says Estroff: "The system encourages people to get well, while at the same time showing them that the one way they can exist is to sell their craziness...
Chamberlain's colleagues begin to doubt his sanity. They are adamant that Aborigine tribes exist only in the Back country, that the city Aborigines are as modern as the next fellow. His wife becomes frightened by her husband's odd behavior, his dreams, his sojourns into mysticism, and takes the kiddies away to the country. But Chamberlain keeps digging, convinced that there is something supernatural there, and that somehow the Aborigines are tied in with something he cannot understand...
Despite Auschwitz, the Gulag Archipelago, Cambodia and Jonestown, we are being told once again that evil does not exist [Dec. 18]. Good grief! What would have to happen for Milhaven and Baum to accept the existence of evil? Having eliminated evil from the world, perhaps they would be so kind as to rid us of poverty, disease, pain and war as well. Robert H. Stein White Bear Lake, Minn...