Word: randomly
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...upon marriage) or to return to an old one (as upon separation). The evolutionary psychologists John Tooby and Leda Cosmides see in the mammoth popularity of the TV show Cheers during the 1980s a visceral yearning for the world of our ancestors--a place where life brought regular, random encounters with friends, and not just occasional, carefully scheduled lunches with them; where there were spats and rivalries, yes, but where grievances were usually heard in short order and tensions thus resolved...
...fortune worth some $12 billion in Berkshire stock and made him the second-richest man in America after his friend Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. "In the annals of investing, Warren Buffett stands alone," observes Wall Street Journal columnist Roger Lowenstein, whose biography of Buffett will be published by Random House later this month. According to Lowenstein, an investor who had placed $10,000 with Buffett in 1956 would have holdings today worth about $95 million...
...woman who became known as Jane Roe are inconsequential, having become far removed from the ultimate significance of the case. She emphasizes the case was a class action decision, insuring the protection of abortion rights for a country of women clamoring for change in which McCorvey was simply a random representative. As a result, Weddington attests that whatever McCorvey decides in her personal, professional and political life does not reflect the views of most women who have benefited from the ruling, and should be ignored...
Beyond just the potential problems with random censorship, though, this device, costly to make and promote, is a small drop in the bucket towards combating violence. Rather than worrying about what is coming into the house on the television screen, parents should worry about what the children will face when they emerge from the house...
...Elaine Pagels. Her much honored 1979 work, The Gnostic Gospels, was one of the rare volumes of religious scholarship to find a general readership. In her new book, The Origin of Satan (Random House; $23), Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton University, examines how the earliest Christians made their opponents out to be the devil. First the Jews who spurned Christ, then the Romans who persecuted his followers, then other Christians who departed from the orthodoxies of the newly consolidating church -- each group in turn, she says, appears in early Christian texts not just as a philosophical contender...