Word: superior
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...formula. But because of lack of careful sterilization methods, the infant mortality rate rose. Could not the Peace Corps be effective in re-educating these women? How many dollars would be saved in our foreign aid food programs if thousands of these women would return to their older, superior method...
Still, most islanders admit that Beinecke's development, even if executed somewhat imperiously, is far superior to anything a quick-buck developer would put up. Says Philip Read, who runs Beinecke's Jared Coffin House and has been around long enough to be considered an "islander": "If Nantucket becomes a little sophisticated, a little high-priced, then I think it's all right. If it becomes a Coney Island, I think it's dead...
When a collapsing staircase left him with a broken leg, a Boston furniture mover sued the owner of the building for $35,000. After each side presented its case, the attorney for the building owner complained that the moving man had come nowhere near justifying his claim. Superior Court Judge Reuben Lurie agreed, and he upheld a motion asking for a directed verdict in favor of the defendant. Under Massachusetts law, there was only one formality left. The clerk intoned: "Mr. Foreman and members of the jury, hearken to your verdict. The jury finds for the defendant by order...
Life to Death. Whatever their varied reasons, the judges' unequivocal conclusion affects far more military men than SP4 Anderson. For military law changes in time of war. The maximum penalty for desertion, for example, rises from life imprisonment to death. Assaulting or disobeying a superior also becomes punishable by death. While the Anderson decision applies only to military courts, its effective marshaling of precedents is likely to persuade the civilian courts to agree that the U.S. is indeed in a war-even if Congress never does get around to declaring...
Across the U.S., a superior science-fiction movie called 2001: A Space Odyssey is playing to packed houses. An engrossing novel expanded from the movie's screenplay and a new nonfiction book called The Promise of Space are selling briskly in bookstores. Some 22,000 miles above the equator, communications satellites are relaying TV pictures and telephone calls between the continents. The movie, the books and the satellites all have something in common: they are the brainchildren of Arthur C. Clarke, a tall, springy and remarkably imaginative Englishman whose writing bridges the gap between the far reaches of science...