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Such theatrics might seem merely eccentric to Americans if they came from, say, an exotic sect such as Hare Krishna. When they are presented in the name of Christianity, however, people who consider themselves good churchgoing Christians resent the purer-than-thou attitude-and the appeal it seems to hold for their children. Nonetheless, the group in some cases has had more success than parents in winning young people from drugs, casual sex and drifting. They also have potent precedents in St. Francis of Assisi and St. Thomas Aquinas, both of whom had to break with their families over their...
...Essay on population [Sept. 13] Otto Friedrich's optimism would be more credible if he could cite any advantages in having more people on the face of the earth, or in the U.S. What river would be purer? What slum would be more livable? What crime statistics would decline? How would life become more meaningful...
Horse trainers feed it to their thoroughbreds during the racing season, fish lovers raise their most prized species in it, horticulturalists nurture exotic African violets with it-and people drink it. It is bottled water, and it is used for all those things because it is supposed to be purer than the stuff that comes from...
Other scientists see an even more exciting application: color television sets the size of transistor radios. Using a hundred times less voltage than conventional sets, tiny battery-powered ceramic TV screens would show purer colors than conventional sets, without generating hazardous X rays. They could also be used as an animated color transparency. Placed in a light projector, they could flash large TV images against a movie screen or even a plain white wall...
...Palestinian aspect of the conflict is somewhat simpler and seemingly purer. First, the Palestinians want a state of their own of which Israel and the Arab states have "deprived" them. Second, they want their state in their "homeland." most of which is now part of Israel. Many of the Palestinian leaders express a desire for a "de-Zionized" Palestinian state of both Palestinians and Jews, although for the vast major?? of Israelis and world Jewry, who are in favor of a Jewish state, this is just as deadly a solution as "throwing the Jews into...