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CHRYSLER CORP. Minivan door latches allegedly have habit of opening in crashes, inspiring recall
...able to have a child before--this may be her last chance. If her husband lives, she must give up the child. She loves her husband, she loves her lover and she also loves the unborn child (although she tries to chain-smoke it to death with her nervous habit). The doctor is forced to play the role of God, directing who will live and who will die. His own family history is juxtaposed with her story, according us unexpected insight. Kieslowski focusses on small images: the woman methodically snapping leaves off of a plant, her husband, in the hospital...
...course they were not: the Allied committees restored the art to its rightful owners as fast as possible after the war, whereas the Russians refused to. The catalog affects pained astonishment that the Western press should adopt the "quite ridiculous" habit of calling a theft a theft, but that's what it was, and no mealiness of the mouth can change it. Piotrovski insists in his catalog preface that the show "is not being held to make a point in an argument but is rather an event in the life of the arts." Well and good, but the argument will...
...some cosmologists to admit the need to re-examine ideas upon which they have constructed their theories in the light of new information is indeed refreshing [Science, March 6]. Fortunately, these scientists appear to lack the disturbing habit, found so often in evolution-based sciences, of ignoring or explaining away empirical evidence that contradicts fervently held beliefs...
Federal authorities know it would be foolhardy to regard the 12 names as anything other than a hit list, since doctors identified in antiabortion literature have a habit of becoming targets. Moreover, at least one shooter remains at large. Last October, McMillan was quoted in the New York Times Sunday magazine, apropos of the case in which Paul Hill killed a doctor in front of a clinic, as saying, "Why would a person do it publicly, when maybe he could have done it clandestinely, with a high-powered rifle ...'' Nine days later, Dr. Gary Romalis was gravely wounded...