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Accidents are of course entropy, as is the slow wear of tire treads or the blur of alcoholic vision that suddenly turns all your raging horsepower and tons of steel from an asset into a trap. Too much entropy can deliver you back into Newton's dread realm after all. It was a big, black American sedan that skidded up the mountain road where I live on Memorial Day night, climbed a guy wire and broke the telephone pole. The way the car came to rest -- lights blazing, leaning against the opposite side of the pole from where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caution: We Brake for Newton | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

Javerbaum said the writing duo was inspired by a figure considered by many to be the very embodiment of Las Vegas--Wayne Newton...

Author: By Kelly T. Yee, | Title: Comedy to Include Elvis, Lounge Lizards | 9/25/1991 | See Source »

...were playing Wayne Newton records and decided to create something Wayne could see and really like," he said...

Author: By Kelly T. Yee, | Title: Comedy to Include Elvis, Lounge Lizards | 9/25/1991 | See Source »

Choosing a valedictorian is usually a simple matter: the pupil with the top grades gets the honor. But for two rival students at Newton County High School in Covington, Ga., even a federal judge couldn't settle a dispute that has roiled the racially volatile school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Grade-Point Showdown | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...case, the 20th century shattered the lenses and paradigms, the very mind, of reason. The universe went from Newton's model to Einstein's, and beyond, into absurdities even more profound. An underlying assumption of proportion and continuity in the world perished. The proportions between cause and effect were skewed. A minuscule event (indeed, an atom) could blossom into vast obliterations. Einstein said God does not play dice with the world. But if there was order, either scientific or moral, in God's universe, it became absurdly inaccessible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evil | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

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