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...when TIME.com started getting e-mail from people wondering why the media weren't paying more attention to the Arkansas incident, we decided to examine whether we and other media outlets had been guilty of some sort of unfairness. (Actually, the media did pay attention, if only at the lack of ink the story generated. As an editorial in the conservative Washington Times fumed, if Shepard had become a cause c?l?bre, why didn't this rate the same treatment?) Could it be because we in the the media elite were unwilling to publicize crimes committed by homosexuals because it didn...
Over 30 states have passed some sort of ban on partial-birth abortions, but 20 of them have been blocked or restricted in enforcing the ban by the courts. Just a day after the Senate failed to override the President's veto of the partial-birth abortion bill, a federal appeals court upheld Illinois and Wisconsin bans of the procedure, virtually ensuring that the issue will go to the Supreme Court...
...What seems really weird to me is that on American Airlines, you can open up their magazine, and there it is: your horoscope. It's very funny, they have a very flamboyant sort of a wild guy writing these things, and it's entertaining. But on the other hand, what's keeping the airplane up? It seems so wacky to me, that an enterprise that depends on an understanding of the physical world, and requires people to have confidence in their ability to do so, at the same time have this sort of mysticism...
...Approaching the lane for the last bowl of the game, Putnam rubs his hands over the hand dryer and checks his shoes--habits he says he usually performs before every bowl. "It's sort of like how Nomar Garciaparra always checks his sleeves and things before he hits...
...viruses and disastrous trips into the woods (kind of like FOP). It may be an escapist principle, but I think the feeling is universal. Alien invasions, ghosts, monsters, things that go bump in the night--these concepts are intrinsic to human nature. Every civilization throughout history has incorporated some sort of variation on the theme into their cultural folklore. The Greeks had their multitude of gods and monsters, the Mayans had their "strange men from the stars," the citizens of Salem had their witches. I come from a community in New Jersey where a radio production of Orson Welles...