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ALTHOUGH THERE ARE SOME factual miscus (all specimens viewed in an election microscope are dead), some undefined jargon (what is a "referee?"), the only real technical flaw is the need for a glossary. Still, Goodfield's book has its virtues. She gives us a clear look at a scientific Athens--a society of intellect held together by the bonds of mutual curiousity--a republic of the mind...
...Congress to extend voting rights. In 1959, the court ruled that literacy tests do not discriminate. But Congress later decided that, in fact, they do-and banned them by law. The court went along. To Galebach, this shows that the court is willing to defer to Congress's factual determination of the scope of constitutional rights or, in the abortion issue, the fundamental question of when life begins...
...religion at Princeton, declines to identify the precise moment when life begins. But he argues that science now offers evidence of human characteristics in the fetus far earlier than once believed. "I do not say human life begins with conception," says Ramsey, "but science has given us ample factual grounds for believing that the unborn child is an independent human being within the time span [that is, six months] in which the law now says this unborn child can be killed...
Members of the Global 2000 staff strongly dispute Simon's assertions. Gerald Barney, a Washington consultant who served as the panel's director, denounces Simon's article as "full of factual errors, distortions, misrepresentations and falsehoods." Bill Long, director of the State Department's Office of Food and Natural Resources and a participant in the study, points out that the report focused on a 20-year span, while Simon relies on statistics that cover periods ranging from four to 100 years to reach his conclusions. More important, Simon almost always cites figures only...
Preposterous? Absolutely. Yet there is virtually no factual claim in Lifton's book that is not supported by the public record or his own interviews, many of them with the lowly hospital and military bystanders whom official probes had overlooked. Even the reader who does not accept Best Evidence's sensational conclusions-and there is no logical reason for doing so-is likely to admit that Lifton has turned up intriguing new evidence of some strange doings with Kennedy's body in the twelve hours following the shooting. The reports by the Bethesda corpsmen, Custer and David...