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Author Darryl Brock starts off with an oboe passage. His hero, Sam Fowler, a San Francisco newspaperman in his early 30s, is gloomy from a bad divorce and muzzy from a slight drinking problem. He has flown to Cleveland to bury his father, who died there alone, and has decided to meander back home on an Amtrak train. Somewhere in northern Ohio, the train rolls to an unscheduled stop on a siding, and Fowler steps off into the summer heat to clear his head. When he turns, the 20th century Amtrak diesel has vanished, and a woodburning steam train -- what...
...These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words--those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace...such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value...that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly out-weighed by the social interest in order and morality...
...other decisions, such as TLO v. New Jersey and Tinker v. Des Moines School District, the Supreme Court has determined that the educational environment must be preserved, even if it means a slight abridgement of student liberties...
Collecting does have its hazards. Newcomers can be burned by disreputable dealers circulating fakes. Often a piece that is selling at a slight discount is actually a restoration or, worse, a conversion doctored up with carving or different feet to pass for a more desirable design...
...avoid injury. But recent Army studies indicate that women's physical strength develops rapidly during training, and as Meredith Neizer, head of a Defense Department advisory committee, notes, intelligence and technical skills are also important to a soldier: "Modern war is fought in a variety of arenas, and the slight physical differences don't have to play a role...