Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MORE frightening than the particular offensive statements articulated by Cohen and his cohorts is the fact that his logic can be used to support almost any racist policy. Real estate agents can refuse to show Blacks apartments in white neighborhoods because property rates go down when they move in. School desegregation can be rejected because of the danger to white kids. Some people might even argue that search and seizure prohibitions should be relaxed for Blacks because of their high crime rates. After all, crime prevention is important, not individual rights...
...FUNDS for education were adequate, we need to become more sophisticated in our educational approaches. As the history of sexually transmitted diseases shows us, altering behavior is no simple matter. The underlying assumption about behavior, deeply ingrained in our culture, is that it is merely voluntary. According to this logic, once appropriately informed about risks, individuals "should" modify their behaviors...
...fall. Higher than this, the air is so thin that ordinary people can live for only several hours -- if at all. Trapped in the so-called death zone, says one climber who is familiar with these altitudes, "you can't shout for help anymore. You lose your sense of logic. And you die in euphoria, overestimating your own strength...
...SCSI logic board, which comes standard on the Mac Plus, adds several features unnecessary for the average student, but advantageous for special applications. With the board, users can add up to four megabytes of RAM and hook-up peripherals such as hard disk drives through the SCSI port. A SCSI upgrade for an old 512k Mac costs $418 plus installation from Harvard's computer store...
...thinking about adding a hard drive, the SCSI is a must because other hard drive interfaces follow different standards, and thus might be incompatible with some software. You must have 512k and the new ROMs/800k disk drive before upgrading an old Mac with the new logic board. Additionally, the SCSI port changes the connectors on your printer and modem ports, requiring additional adapter cables (about...