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...United States today is a fluid and dynamic society--buffeted by the forces of technological change on one side, and traditional institutions on the other, observers say. "I think the most fundamental point is that the accepted and recognized, if not always approved standards, of conditions is becoming more fluid and ambiguous," says Geoffrey Hazard, a Yale law professor who specializes in legal ethics...
...highways of Jayne Anne Phillips' fiction. Castoffs from the counterculture, sleeping on floors or living in cars, unsure of where they stand in time or space, few of them know how to keep jobs, let alone take care of themselves. Phillips' characters lack purpose and authority. Their world is fluid, but they do not quite go under. They simply float...
With the exception of a temporary quarterly system to accommodate a fluid student body during World II, the University's only change in the last half-century has been, starting 10 years ago, to begin the academic year one week earlier to help students procure summer jobs...
...guerrilla antiaircraft positions. Hoja Inatullah, 19, says he nearly died of asphyxiation, surviving only by wetting his blanket and breathing through it. "For four or five hours afterward, I had trouble breathing," he says. "My friends carried me to the bomb shelter, and I lay there spitting up black fluid." In such a conflict, justice can be harsh for captured invaders. Said a young guerrilla named Ismail: "We won't shoot them. Bullets are too expensive. Maybe we will stone them to death, or cut their throats, or throw them off a cliff." Despite heavy Soviet pressure, the resistance fighters...
FOOTNOTE:*The most familiar example of a phase change is the transformation, at 32 degrees F, of water from a fluid into crystalline...