Word: seriousness
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These are issues which should be widely aired. At stake may be nothing less than our collective survival. The fact that these matters have up until now been taboo in the "marketplace of ideas" raises serious questions about the state of our first amendment freedoms...
Until the Frank expose, few people viewed the Times, founded in 1982, as a serious menace. The newspaper, after all, is owned by investors who are members of the Unification Church headed by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose ambition is to lead a worldwide theocracy. Yet many critics who dismissed "the Moonie paper" in the early days are now taking a second look. Slowly the Times (circ. 103,539) is moving toward acceptability...
Last week, however, the soap-opera proceedings turned deadly serious for Jim Bakker. Convicted 19 days earlier of fraudulently raising $158 million in contributions from his adoring flock, the smooth-talking, scandal-plagued televangelist drew a stunning 45-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine...
...radar has a serious drawback: its signal is a blazing electronic beacon that can make the transmitter as much the hunted as the hunter. "Like a flashlight in a dark forest, radar can spotlight certain trees," says Theodore Postol, an electronics expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "But everybody in the woods...
Oliver and Waldeck are serious about what they do, but they do not take themselves too seriously. In fact, they sing an impish spoof of nature lovers to the melody of Under the Boardwalk. The chorus...