Word: rationales
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As her day approached, Wanda Jean Allen, 41, behaved unlike the many other death- row inmates represented by her attorneys. That may be because the high school dropout was hit by a truck as a child, suffered a head injury and was stabbed in the head. She suffered from possible...
There comes a time, though, when Jerry has to choose between his newfound identity as a happy family man and his older, more firmly established one as a cop who cannot abandon a case. It would be unfair to describe the jeopardy he embraces--except to say that he risks...
We have come to expect this "Chicken Little" behavior from typical doomsday prophets like the self-important Bob Costas, but lately even more rational commentators--including writers for this very sports page--have been sucked in by the mania.
But in the new era of genomic medicine, this halting, inefficient approach should give way to something much more rational and systematic. Doctors will treat diseases like cancer and diabetes before the symptoms even begin, using medications that boost or counteract the effects of individual proteins with exquisite precision, attacking...
All of which seems to me, with all due respect to the L.A. Times and the others, to be a perfectly rational reaction. The dispute over Florida touches on first principles, as disputes between liberals and conservatives often do. The train of reasoning is roughly as follows. Most people not...