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Americans need only look at the problems bilingualism has created in Canada to realize what may occur...
...think the presence of the Communist Party can be explained by historic and sociocultural reasons. For one thing, there is the fact that the French economy remained relatively backward for many decades and that its profound transformation did not occur until after World War II. Moreover, there are in France dogmatic patterns of thought that are part of our national heritage and that are apparent on the right as well as on the left. Finally, there is within the intelligentsia, despite its declarations to the contrary, a certain inclination toward authoritarian forms of government, in one direction as well...
...researchers investigated the claim of biorhythm supporters that a disproportionate number of accidents and disasters-perhaps 40% to 80%-occur on "critical" days that represent only 20% of a person's life. In fact, says the Hopkins team, of 205 serious or fatal highway accidents in Maryland in which the driver was legally culpable, only 20% occurred on critical days-just the proportion the scientists expected. Says Andrew Ahlgren, a University of Minnesota researcher who studies body rhythms: "I'm surprised the Hopkins team would even bother. Biorhythm theory is a silly numerological scheme that contradicts everything...
...same proponents are pushing airlines to use biorhythm, on the grounds that many air crashes occur because of heavy pressure on crew members on their critical days. Indeed, United Airlines tried biorhythm for a year at a San Francisco maintenance facility, but then dropped it. Bernard Gittelson, a former p.r. man who is now the head of Biorhythm Computers Inc., believes the airlines will soon convert to the cause. Says he: "We are only five years from advertising tag lines like 'Our pilots never fly on critical days...
...understandable question. An estimated 25,000 to 100,000 child-snatching cases occur every year, and so the parent who observes court orders risks ending up the loser. In most states, kidnaping of children by one of their parents is not treated as a crime. Parents, even those denied custody in divorce arrangements, are exempted from the federal kidnap law. Lacking jurisdiction, the FBI almost never helps locate or return abducted offspring, even when state lines are crossed. Maybe, says Mrs. Downer, "I should tell them I've had three cars stolen, and their names are Joslyn, Heather...