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...time for the most powerless in society to join this fight. Those who obey the law must tilt the law to their advantage, minimizing the excessive power of criminals and police officers...
...colder than normal or the summer 150 degrees warmer. Such swings would wipe out animals and plants; in fact, if Earth's climate were that irregular, life might never have arisen. But the seasons are relatively stable because Earth's axis of rotation stays at a constant 23 degrees tilt from the vertical. In July, for example, the sunward-leaning northern hemisphere experiences summer while the southern hemisphere, angled away from the sun, has winter. Six months later, the opposite is true...
...appears that the regularity of Earth's seasons is a lucky accident, a side effect of the moon. New computer simulations reported in Science and ; Nature have shown that the tilt of a planet like Mars, which has no large moon, will wobble dramatically over periods of a few million years. The gravitational influence of Earth's moon, by contrast, stabilizes our planet. So if life never arose on the Red Planet, one reason may be lack of a suitable satellite...
...reason for staging the bombing -- or for doing it and hoping the Croats would be blamed. The announcement this week that the U.S. would soon start sending relief flights over Bosnia made it just as plausible that the blast might be a response by Serbs to a perceived tilt against their side. Six months ago, Serbian nationalists threatened to bomb Western's Europe's nuclear facilities if its governments intervened militarily in the former Yugoslavia...
...year with Justice Marshall, a year in which he found himself on the losing side of many of the cases that meant the most to him, particularly those involving capital punishment, I asked whether he felt discouraged by the court's increasingly conservative tilt. He told me that he did not, that he had seen a lot worse than was remotely conceivable nowadays, that the progressive changes wrought by the civil rights revolution would prove more lasting than the reaction against them, and that, in any event, hand wringing was a futile response to challenge...