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Several automakers cited in complaints of sudden acceleration have tried to pin down the causes of the problem. GM engineers have found no mechanical flaw at fault...
...visiting the Ziemans this week but decided that this might hurt rather than help their chances of getting a visa. The President does plan, however, to talk to Vera's father Yuri and a dozen other refusenik families at Spaso House, the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Moscow. "People pin all their hopes on the summit," says Vera's mother Tanya. "The old refuseniks are all in a terrible state...
Although Roth has not worked with live specimens for about 10 years, he misses his behavioral studies. "A cockroach on a pin is nothing like the living thing. It doesn't smell the same: it's not waving its antennae at you," he says...
Their slightly more scientific brethren, known as sociologists, would pin the blame instead on broken homes, bad education, two-career families, and the premature influence of the sex-filled mass media. The diagnoses of both sociologists and moralists imply that we need to rebuild teens' social environments to condition young adults better. This is not a constructive recommendation, because it rests on the assumption of moral or social decay. Claiming that things were better in the good old days gets us nowhere...
...easy to pin the whole problem of destructive religious groups on the groups themselves. This is the same kind of faulty logic which says the entire drug problem can be blamed on Manuel Noriega and local narcotics thugs. The Boston Church of Christ, and other groups like it, meet a very tangible need among students--a desire for assurance and friendship on what can be a cold and friendless campus...