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...starkest illustration of this paradox, on an immediate level and by my contemporaries, is captured in the following exchange...
...here is the essence of the embarrassing Union Paradox: Who would love a meal, no matter how wonderful it actually is, for which you've waited so long that you can eat like a horse but finally end up taking enough for a bird...
Emphasizing the paradox of post-modernism hesays,"...if you want to be rigorouslyphilosophical you can say you never know anythingabout anything...
While most astronomers take these numbers very seriously-along with the cosmic paradox they imply-Allan Sandage, Freedman's grumpy colleague down the hall, is having none of it. He doesn't quibble with her measurement of the distance to M100, but insists that the analysis breaks down after that. Like most astronomers, Sandage has his favorite method of gauging the relative distance of galaxies. He finds a type of supernova-an exploding star-and compares supernova brightnesses from one galaxy to another. He claims, as he has done for more than 20 years, that the Hubble Constant is lower...
America the bully. America the bountiful. So it has always seemed from the Mexican side of the 2,000-mile-long divide. The peso's latest melodrama only proves the paradox in the eyes of many Mexicans. American investors pour speculative money into Mexico, then snatch it back when times grow hard and Mexico needs it most. The U.S. rides to the rescue, but imposes such harsh conditions that Mexico will be forced into recession...