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...Science with a grain of salt [IDEAS, Sept. 9]. Some writers scramble to make "history" when running out of topics, which is hardly the case with science. How about some humility, like the kind Sir Isaac Newton had when he saw himself as "a boy playing on the sea-shore...now and then finding a smoother pebble...whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." With the inner universe waiting for an Einstein to formulate a unified theory of mind and body, there is much to be done. Maybe then we will understand those people who think...
...effects of marriage breakdowns on women and children have sparked the current bipartisan movement to shore up the institution of marriage and put the fault back in divorce. Two weeks ago, at a conference in Aspen, Colorado, Republican virtuecrat Bill Bennett spoke at a seminar of investors and media executives about the social scourge of divorce. "Don't just look at young black men or at women on welfare," he said. "We've got to look at ourselves. The middle class needs to set an example of standing by your family and your children and your commitments." The Masters...
Vigorous diplomacy was required to shore up allied support for U.S. actions. The most egregious snub seemed to come from Kuwait, the very nation the coalition rescued from Saddam's grasp, when the U.S. Administration's plan to deploy an added 3,500 Americans was publicly put on hold for a day. But officials admit the show of pique was Washington's fault: an army officer misread an order to prepare to deploy as the final go-ahead, prompting the Pentagon to announce the troops were going before Perry could seek permission from Kuwait. U.S. diplomats scrambled to repair...
...Brothers, Primo and Secondo (Tony Shalhoub and Stanley Tucci), are simple souls. Italian immigrants, they believe that if they bring the best of their native land's cuisine to America, fortune will inevitably follow. They have, however, picked the wrong time--the 1950s--and the wrong place--the Jersey shore--for culinary proselytizing. Perhaps even the wrong street, for across from their modest establishment stands Pascal's, whose proprietor (Ian Holm) is busy noisily and prosperously ladling red sauce across his customers' tin palates and quietly scheming his rivals' ruin...
Driving on the Tappan Zee Bridge, Santos saw Maria Cappozza, 24, jump off the 140-ft.-high span into the Hudson River. He stopped, handed his wallet to a bystander and leaped in after her. Although the impact knocked him out briefly, he reached Cappozza; a boat sent from shore pulled them from the water. Says Spring Valley fire chief Robert Schultz: "He saw a woman in distress and did what he is trained...