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...slur for African-Americans. Sitting in her book-filled Paris apartment, Kamoun, 53, explains that she quickly thought of the word zombies, which in French can have its own derogatory double meaning. But it wasn't quite right. She was eventually forced to rely on the translator's last resort - a footnote - to explain the two English meanings. "I'm still not happy," she says. "Even now, three years later, I'm still on the lookout for a better word...
...weakness of the case demonstrates how desperate opponents of marriage equality are and the flimsy legal arguments that they must resort to in order to justify prejudice,” Renn wrote in an e-mail...
Besides, it's easy to see the anthropic principle as an explanation of last resort. When he first began looking at it back in the late 1980s, particle theorist Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas hoped the anthropic principle might go away. But the opposite happened. "It's not something that we're particularly happy about," he says. Every physicist dreams of being able to calculate everything from a set of fundamental laws. But at the same time, Weinberg says, "it's important to be realistic. We may just have to get used to the fact that some...
...when the plebeians in their midst resort to such vulgar means to signify their approval, these spectators get angry, then attempt to restore some semblance of proper decorum...
...story’s importance is proportional to the amount of media coverage it generates, the media is disseminating a warped worldview to an unsuspecting, gullible public. The media must remember that it has an ethical responsibility to inform the public about issues that most impact them, and not resort to yellow journalism to ramp up ratings...