Word: peninsulas
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...most recent installment of Peninsula confirms that Harvard's paleo-conservatives are a sorry bunch. Not evil or dangerous. They are not smart enough. Simply artless and sorry...
...back cover of this month's Peninsula (I am speaking of the February edition, dropped at my door on Wednesday, March 1) contains the following crafty take-off on a cigarette advertisement: "If you like to read, please try Peninsula." And it is in these few words that the story of this journal's startling lack of intellectual nuance begins...
...Peninsula advertises itself as a magazine for readers. And it is, in a sense, a magazine aimed at readers--picture-readers. In the current issue of Peninsula, the editors have once again decided to give pride of place not to a learned argument against abortion or affirmative-action but to sensationalist photographs with callous captions...
...shall not provide a graphic description of the photographs--good taste forbids it. Suffice it to say that Peninsula has out-done itself. The monthly provides us not only with the now standard photo of an aborted fetus, but also a photograph of Shannon Lowney's casket, she of Brookline Planned Parenthood fame. What the editors make of these photographs, how they read them, I shall leave for you to consider...
...more remarkable developments in sensor technology is the Automotive Stability Management System under development by ITT and already proved on frozen test tracks in Sweden and on the upper peninsula of Michigan. Using a coordinating system of seven sensors that detect the sideways momentum, steering-wheel position and cornering rate of the car along with the rotation of each of its wheels, the asms overcomes any driver error and makes skidding virtually impossible even on ice covered lightly by snow. "With this system," says ITT's Tom Mathues, "you can floor the throttle and still get around a cone obstacle...