Word: shallowness
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Like most obvious secular explanations, this one is shallow. American churches don't just passively receive ideas from the general culture. They also stimulate them. (Thomas Jefferson wrote about the "wall of separation" between church and state in a letter to a group of Baptist political allies.) If America's pews ring with debate about America's bedrooms, that is because the churches have their own reasons for grappling with the subject...
...imperfections of the world. Suffering must be borne. Americans did not come to the New World to live like that. They operate on a pushy, querulous assumption of perfectibility on earth ("the pursuit of happiness" -- their own personal happiness). That expectation, which can make Americans charming and unreasonable and shallow, is part of their formula for success. But it has led Americans into absurdities and discontents that others who know life better might never think of. The frontiersman's self-sufficiency and stoicism in the face of pain belong now in some wax museum of lost American self- images...
...does this sound as an exam question? A fifth-grader in San Diego County decided to figure out how far a ball would travel if it rolled down a ramp at a steady 5 ft. per sec. for a year (assuming that friction on the shallow incline counteracted the acceleration of gravity.) His work page is a maze of multiplication, punctuated by arrows explaining things like "Here I found out how many seconds there are in a year." His final answer -- 29,863 miles and 1,108.8 yds. -- is accompanied by a proud statement: "I chose this paper because...
Many doctors think of cholera as a kind of Lazarus syndrome. Victims are brought to a clinic or hospital with no apparent blood pressure or pulse, taking only shallow breaths. "But if there is any life left in them at all, we can bring them back," says Dr. David Sack, associate professor of international health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Sadly, thousands of people in Latin America will not be revived in time and will die of the disease, which robs the body of fluids through severe diarrhea and vomiting. Last week the first epidemic of cholera...
...spring looks more promising, however. B.U.'s fall squad was mostly seniors, and injuries have opened gaps in the shallow Terriers' lineup. B.U. fell to Holy Cross Saturday in the New England Tourney...