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Murphy would have liked to have a wonderful companion to spend the rest of her life with and false the child. But she was not certain which of two men was the father--and didn't want to marry either prospect. In the past, unwed women were encouraged to wed if they became pregnant. Today, society recognizes that, if she chooses, Murphy Brown is capable of raising a child...
...everyone agreed. Some blacks saw only partial justice. And some white policemen took the convictions of Koon and Powell as a slap in the face. But even among white cops, that feeling mingled with an almost giddy relief at the prospect of not having to cope with a riot on the scale of the one last year that left 53 people dead. "Everybody in Los Angeles is just happy that this cloud has finally been dispelled," said police captain Patrick Froehle. Many % blacks agreed. Said one woman, buying bacon at Sun's Market on Avalon Street, which was burned...
...Bosnians alive. But having schooled the Serbs for so long in the idea that it is unwilling to translate threat into action, the West, with Clinton at the fore, faces the crunch: talk of force in Bosnia has cheapened to worthlessness, leaving force itself the only effective option. The prospect for freedom and peace in Bosnia -- and in the Bosnias waiting to happen elsewhere -- demands no less...
...everything, he declaims alarmingly that it could be used to predict that "a particular snowflake would fall on a particular blade of grass or that you would be reading this now." Never mind that such deterministic ambitions died long ago with the discovery of quantum uncertainty. Faced with that prospect, who would not reach for the candles and tarot cards...
...equations are part of nature as much as trees and rains and sex. We are, all of us, including Appleyard, free to make what we want of it. We are free to wake up every morning grateful for the feeling of sunshine on our face or grumpy for the prospect of tomorrow's rain. The fact that science cannot find any purpose to the universe does not mean there is not one. We are free to construct parables for our moral edification out of the law of the jungle, or out of the evolution and interdependence of species...