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...that it is concluded, some will hope that we can put aside the rancor and cynicism that have surrounded it and get on with whatever business was interrupted by the events of the past 100-plus days. This, however, is neither possible nor desirable, for this nomination and the phenomena attending it have raised up for all to see and hear a litany of ugly little secrets that bedevil our best efforts at civic piety...
...theory appears to be sound, but, notes David Black, director of Houston's Lunar and Planetary Institute, the history of astronomy is "littered with the bones of claimed detections." Lyne admits that other phenomena might be causing the observed deviations in the radio waves, but "the most likely interpretation," he maintains, "is that there is a planet there." Many other experts think Lyne is right. "Now that we see it," said Ramesh Narayan, a Harvard astronomer, "it is up to us to explain how it could happen...
...Alexander is all too human. He finds himself retreating from a universe whose significance eludes him and undone by persistent echoes of childhood. It was then that his mother Alice abandoned her family -- but not before she convinced the boy that there are such phenomena as ghosts and guardian angels. As Alexander edges toward nervous collapse, Alice returns from a 20-year absence. With her is Cleo, a seductive and hilarious blond, flourishing every new-age artifice from palmistry and crystal therapy to numerology and astrology. Smitten, Alexander finds himself pulled toward opposing terminals: the arena of scientific investigation...
...means to dismiss rather than to disprove. Conservatives are not at all afraid of an open marketplace of ideas. We have always believed that our ideas are better (as I'm sure the non-relativist liberals have as well), and we desire only a level playing field. The PC phenomena forbids this opportunity...
Lines like, "Take a big breath. See how your chest fills up? That's the sky inside of you" join with suggestions to hug trees and to walk around lamps to understand what it is like for the earth to orbit the sun. Lehrman's explainations of natural phenomena are elementary even for a young child. This book is innane and authoritarian...