Word: logicality
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...accordingly. If an organized crime ring had a cell in Brooklyn, you wouldn’t send a bomber to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge, demolish its water treatment plan or shell residential neighborhoods in the hope that some of your ammunition might kill a few enemy operatives. The same logic should apply to Somalia, Sudan, Iraq or any other country believed to be helping or harboring terrorists...
...result is an untappable line of communications. It would be easier for a potential eavesdropper to pick a single snowflake out of a blizzard than to track down a single photon in flight. What's more, like snowflakes, photons are fragile: according to the surreal logic of quantum physics, the very act of observing one alters it irrevocably...
...nationalistic fervor or some combination of all three. Palestinian militants, encouraged or at least not checked by the PA, have made sure that most Israelis completely forget that peace ever had any positive bearing on their lives. To paraphrase a famous jurist, the life of peace has never been logic; it has been experience. In other words, a peace process can only be understood and evaluated in terms of its payoff. Without internalizing this simple insight, both sides seem destined to remain locked in their macabre dance for the foreseeable future...
...besides the fact that they’re so secretive and self-indulgent. They are social niches unfairly come by. Their membership is not based on the normal social system of elective affinities but by virtue of having been chosen by its predecessors (this is the kind of circular logic that Yogi Berra would’ve loved—“It’s not a social nice until we say it’s a social niche!”). And they are virtually impenetrable to anyone except first-year women—who are right...
...mayor's reasoning went. Unfortunately, there are a couple of problems with his logic. For one thing, getting vaccinated against influenza doesn't guarantee you won't get sick. Although highly effective, the flu vaccine protects against only the dominant strains and even then does not provide 100% protection. It takes a couple of weeks for your body to respond to the vaccine with a sufficient number of antibodies. Each year thousands of people who get the vaccine nevertheless still...