Word: faults
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MOSCOW: Maybe it's not all their fault. As the finger-pointing continues over June's collision between a cargo ship and Mir's Spektr module, a panel of top Russian space officials said that ground controllers must share some of the blame with cosmonauts Vasily Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin. That's something of a relief for the two spacemen, who earlier this week were fingered by Valery Ryumin, coordinator of the NASA-Mir mission, as the sole culprits in the crack...
Seniors today are undermined by admirable traits. Says Bruce Gebhardt, who heads the FBI office in Phoenix, Ariz.: "They grew up in a more polite age, and they can't hang up the phone." Or slam a door in a con artist's face. Many are trusting to a fault: they cannot believe that well-dressed, well-spoken, solicitous young men can be ripping them...
...1990s America was growing as disillusioned with divorce as 1960s America had grown with marriage. As the backlash against divorce progressed, state legislatures across the country, in an as yet unsuccessful attempt to reduce what was still the world's highest divorce rate, called for a rollback of no-fault divorce laws and even for premarital waiting periods. Last week, in a melodramatic flourish, a North Carolina jury added to the simmering debate by taking the side of an abandoned wife, ordering the "other woman" to pay her $1 million (see following story). Though the decision was based...
Pollitt sees an ulterior motive behind the assault on no-fault divorce: a backlash against feminism. While husbands once initiated most divorces, the situation has reversed itself: more wives now seek divorces. And if you believe Ashton Applewhite, author of Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well, divorce, though usually painful at first, is a true liberation for many wives. In her book, she profiles 50 women, including "Dina," an immigration attorney. The mother of two sons, Dina regrets agreeing to share custody with the children's father. Ultimately, though, she works things out, illustrating Applewhite...
...encouraging couples to marry less hastily and keeping them frightened and honest when they do wed, the high divorce rate may be, paradoxically, its own antidote. Revising no-fault divorce laws could be irrelevant and mandatory counseling redundant, especially when one considers the boom in voluntary counseling. At a convention in Washington, "Smart Marriages, Happy Families," therapists from around the world gathered to share findings and techniques. Some events, like the lecture on "Hot Monogamy," were reminiscent of a Reader's Digest article. Other ideas, such as church-based programs that ask engaged couples to fill out marital "inventories," seemed...