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...neighbors. To a few friends, he was even known jokingly as "Henry David"--as in Henry David Thoreau, the literary patron saint of nature lovers and solitary souls. He took a passionate stand against paving the two-lane road into Terlingua Ranch. "We both worried about the destruction of mankind from too much emphasis on technology," says Joe La Follette, an English teacher and friend who joined David on long desert hikes. "But he didn't have a solution...
...bill claim that the bill infringes on the right of physicians to practice medicine without fear of government intrusion. The technique, performed about 200 times a year, involves partially delivering the fetus, and then collapsing and draining its skull contents. The process is an "offense to the conscience of mankind," said Florida Republican Representative Charles Canady, one of the bill's supporters who believe the measure has wide public support in this election year. "The whole push is part of the pro-life movement to eliminate abortion, grisly procedure by grisly procedure," says TIME's Michael Duffy...
Historically, the Roman Catholic Church regarded any discussion of alien life as heresy. Speculating about other inhabited worlds was one reason philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600. Belief that mankind has a special relationship with God is central to the monotheistic religions. The existence of alien beings, especially if they were further advanced than humans intellectually and spiritually, would disrupt this cozy view...
...achieve far more than smut reduction. Any system of control that can stop us from writing dirty words online is a system that can control our collective conversation in other, more important ways. If the nation-states perfect such methods, they may own enough of the mind of mankind to perpetuate themselves far beyond their usefulness...
...Southerner on record, with countrified hits like Everybody Loves Somebody and Houston, and a Westerner onscreen--he loved to sit on a horse and ride to Nogales, or nowhere. Perhaps nowhere was his chosen destination. To Nick Tosches, his biographer, Martin was a nihilist hero. Instead of seeing mankind surrounded by a void, Tosches argued, Dino found the void within himself, and called it home...