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Almost all the city councillors supported the tunnel, yet for over three hours the debate continued, not so much over whether to grant the shortcut, but over a long list of MIT-Cambridge issues...
...Angeles heads north toward Alaska, it scrapes against the plate carrying most of the rest of the U.S., sticking for years and then suddenly spurting forward. Near Palm Springs, the San Andreas Fault makes a jog to the west, suggesting that it may be trying to take a shortcut along a new line of least resistance and that eventually the section near Los Angeles may quiet down. That's the good news. Unfortunately, it's not likely to happen for another 50 million years...
...Texas Connection (Texas Connection Co.; 323 pages; $21.95), Craig I. Zirbel claims to provide the "final answer" on Johnson's role. Zirbel says Johnson probably organized the murder with a group of right-wing oilmen as a shortcut to the Oval Office. The author provides no persuasive evidence to support the allegation, relying instead on the argument that Johnson was a murderer because he had the turpitude to behave like one. Zirbel ticks off Johnson's egomania, drinking habits and philandering as examples of his "violations of moral rules." The author dismisses opposing speculations of why Kennedy was killed, saying...
Laura Parker, chief of the Washington Post's Miami bureau, took the shortcut principle even further in filing a piece about mosquito and grasshopper infestations in Florida. She lifted most of her reporting from stories by the Miami Herald and the Associated Press, including direct quotations from people she had not interviewed. She presumably saw little point in the donkey work of calling the quoted sources, or hunting up counterparts, to provide innocuous remarks. In the mind of her editors, however, she broke an implicit contract with the reader, in which the newspaper vouches that all its facts, especially those...
...some pre-existing medical condition. Predicting and detecting such problems, argues Dr. John Tupper, president of the American Medical Association, "is not something one learns in a quickie course." Tupper and others believe that only full medical-school training could prepare psychologists to prescribe drugs safely. "There is no shortcut," he says...