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...adult criminal courts, 40 percent of those sent to juvenile prisons and 58 percent of those incarcerated in adult prisons. These racial disparities are introduced during the decisions to arrest, to file charges, to convict and to sentence. Furthermore, because judges, rather than juries, often make the determination of guilt, the statistics show that the discrimination--intentional or not--is located within the justice system...
...fear of executing the wrong man (a more popular line of demurral these days) is an unreliable argument against all capital punishment. What if there are many witnesses to a murder? What if it's Hitler? Is capital punishment OK in cases of unmistakable guilt? George W. Bush says that he reviews each case to make sure he is absolutely certain a person did it before he allows a Texas execution to go ahead...
...always thought that another form of lingering undergraduate guilt explained the phenomenal sales some years ago of A Brief History of Time, by the English physicist Stephen Hawking--a book that, I think it's fair to say, is not your typical best-seller-list page turner. I figured that it was being snapped up by liberal-arts types who in their undergraduate days had finessed the science requirement by taking some notorious gut in the geology department and still felt guilty about having blindly accepted the conventional wisdom that physics courses should be avoided at all costs...
...more aware of oneself as a natural organism. Yet concern for self does not expand sufficiently to embrace concern for the species, and definitely not for all species, to which one is connected by common evolution. We dabble in biotechnology as crude approximations of nature. We are guilt-ridden about what we eat from time to time. We take to nature and resist it, though we recognize that the life of the Rockies and the limpet is our life too and that resistance menaces survival...
...waterfall, a bone-shaped wading pool for splashing, a grassy acre for chasing and racing, and fenced-in space for digging make California's PARADISE RANCH a canine country club. Karen Estudillo, pet parent of Yorkshire terrier Mikey and Amoy, a Maltese, says she is "guilt free" when she and her husband Tom leave the dogs at the hacienda-style Sun Valley ranch. "It looks like the animals have more fun than I do when...