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...wild card for this game lurking in the background is the weather. All questions about observing the line and three-step drops become moot if Hurricane Floyd turns Harvard Stadium into a mud bowl and the game into pure grinding, smash-mouth football...
...scientific "facts" of today have an unnerving way of being superseded by tomorrow's knowledge and improved technology. Your article said the human race, of all the animal kingdom, is the only currently unique species. Is this not more than pure coincidence? A more objective look at this extraordinary fact might lead us to the words of Genesis: "So God created man in his own image." CHARLES HARDING West Sussex, England...
Right-thinking creationists do not impugn evolution. What we reject is a universe that made itself out of nothing or is in eternal flux and presumes that we humans are little more than a strange fluke on the route to quantum mechanics. Pure evolution raises serious questions about such matters as justice, freedom and rights, for if there is no God, then, according to the principles of evolution, the more powerful must always win while the weak and inferior deserve to be trampled or eliminated. With the unqualified acceptance of evolution, the creationist concepts of perennial values of equality...
...only 27 years ago that his crazy volatility ignited The Godfather. Now he's almost beamish as a wary fixer. He's still funny, but his new characterization, like the success of The Sopranos and Analyze This, reminds us how quickly we have converted palpable menace to pure ethnic comedy. Is this progress? Not really. But in the context of Mickey Blue Eyes it's easy to fuhgeddaboutit...
Forget that dramatic moment in the film Contact when the radio astronomer played by Jodie Foster rips off her earphones in astonishment after hearing four telltale beeps. Pure fiction, say scientists--and not only because of her hokey headset. When extraterrestrials finally make themselves known, they may not use radio at all. Instead, they're just as apt to signal us with beams of light. Says physicist Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.: "It's foolish to try to guess what an extraterrestrial civilization might use. You ought to try all available technologies to detect...