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Surely it is not a coincidence, then, that Caroline Kennedy finds herself drawn to the subject of privacy. Following the law-for-the-layman formula of the bestselling In Our Defense, a book on the Bill of Rights that she and Ellen Alderman, a friend from Columbia Law School, wrote in 1991, Kennedy and Alderman have produced The Right to Privacy (Knopf; $25). The new book skillfully weaves together unfamiliar, dramatic case histories with a survey of the laws governing what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once called "the right to be let alone." Looking at assaults on privacy...
...book, be forewarned, is not a layman's treatise on the mechanisms of natural selection. Dennett plunges right into the philosophical implications of evolution without giving a thorough explanation of Mendelian genetics or the process of DNA replication, so that the biology novice will no doubt feel a bit swamped from the beginning. Unfortunately, the situation does not improve as Dennett rockets through literally dozens of debates and subtopics within Darwinism. The sheer breadth of the book makes it better suited for someone already acquainted with the state of current evolutionary biology...
...ridden and he's not hooked up to anything. What he is tired. As a layman, non-physician, I can tell you in no uncertain terms, he was tired...
...Preston Scott Cohen, an artist who earned his master's degree at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and is now an assistant professor of architecture there. His drawings, with titles like "Third Sterotomic Object Intersecting Previous Two on a Near Horizontal Axis" can appear somewhat daunting to a layman but can still be appreciated for their intricate, precise lines and complex forms...
...more of your tax money to spend on the education of your children, or on developing new jobs, or on health care. We keep interest rates down, and it's easier for you to borrow money in the private sector, so you create more jobs." Unimpeachable logic and in layman's language -- but still a rather complicated chain of cause and effect...