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Unfortunately, our escalating worries may not be entirely unwarranted. On Monday, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld warned of the possibility of a biological attack on the United States. Society??€™s standard defense against such attacks—that no one would be so inhuman as to carry them out—holds less currency now that we have seen terrorists make deadly weapons of passenger planes. Experts believe that the use of biological weapons could potentially present an even greater threat to human existence than nuclear weapons did a few decades...
Kevin G. Barnhurst, an associate professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said he feels the recent tragedy has made his research—lookingat the press’s relationship to the public in a democratic society??€”more relevant than ever...
...establishment students and angry white Gen-Xers—grunge was solidified as a genre by dirty slackers Mudhoney and the magnetic caterwaul of Soundgarden. In interviews, Cobain presented himself as the posterboy for grunge: Filthy, seemingly apathetic, and disillusioned with society, using music as a respite untainted by society??€™s stamp of approval. Cobain would claim in interviews that he traded valuable antique guns for his first guitar, that his lyrics were not about anything in particular and that he despised attention from the media. Yet in truth, his demeanor was contrived to maximize shock?...
Year after year, the most provocative works of art are those which confront taboos of the period in which they were created, art through which an artist seeks to challenge his society??€™s ideals or the parameters of its concepts of propriety. And although Udé’s exhibit certainly does qualify as questionable—based on its seemingly gratuitously pornographic content and its direct confrontations with modern society??€™s notion of beauty and normality—his pieces are intellectually provocative and pose worthy questions...
Tribe and Halperin said that ACS hoped to emulate the Federalist Society??€™s success in creating a powerful network of legal professionals...