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...inhospitable as both these worlds seem, their discovery, announced two weeks ago by San Francisco State University astronomers Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler, has thrown an almost wholly speculative area of study solidly into the realm of tangible fact. Despite years of searching with the most powerful telescopes, despite decades of listening for the faint crackle of radio signals from distant civilizations, despite endless theorizing about how life might or might not arise, nobody had ever found concrete evidence to suggest that our planet, our civilization, our life-forms were anything but unique in the cosmos...
Similar reasoning applies to evolution. According to the orthodox view, Darwinian selection is utterly blind. Any impression that the transition from microbes to man represents progress is pure chauvinism on our part. The path of evolution is merely a random walk through the realm of possibilities...
Indeed, the discovery of respective integrities is one of the most noble projects of higher education. It's to the impoverishment of each of us as faithful individuals, and all of us as citizens of the human community, that we neglect it in the realm of the spirit. And it's work we can only do together...
Twinlights also continues vocalist Liz Fraser's recent trend toward a less embellished singing style. Considering her assertion that abuse in childhood led her to sing in nonsense syllables, one can only be glad to see her emergence into the realm of the intelligible. Yet Fraser's voice has now lost its most striking asset, an "I'm either verging on a nervous breakdown or about to explode with joy" quality. Her singing on this EP is on a par with the pretty but insipid vocals of the Sundays' Harriet Wheeler -- without the cynical edge of humor that makes Wheeler...
...here in the realm of leading-edge medical technology that the culture clash between the new medicine and the old becomes most evident. The new medicine, by its nature, abhors complexity and innovation. Health Net, for example, won't cover any treatment it deems to be experimental or investigative, even though its contract with MediCal, California's Medicaid program, does cover visits to acupuncturists and faith healers. Like other HMOs, it spends nothing on research to hunt for new treatments for disease. In fact, it feels bound by law and competition to avoid such research...