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...well-attended rallies around the country, Keyes dissects the meaning of the Declaration of Independence and finds in it an antiabortion message. "We are endowed by our Cre-a-tor," he says, stringing out the syllables for effect, "not by evolution or by bureaucrats, with certain unalienable rights." Unalienable, he says with professorial precision, means "they cannot be taken from us." "Our freedom and our life come from God," he says--and legalized abortion rips away that life and freedom...
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...easy to make this stuff look foolish and trivial," says Tor Books' Nielsen Hayden. "After all, a lot of everyone's daily life is foolish and trivial. I mean, really, smileys? Housewives in Des Moines who log on as VIXEN...
...overwhelming belief that E-mail and computer conferencing is teaching an entire generation about the flexibility and utility of prose," writes Jon Carroll, a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, an editor at Tor Books, compares electronic bulletin boards with the "scribblers' compacts" of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in which members passed letters from hand to hand, adding a little more at each turn. David Sewell, an associate editor at the University of Arizona, likens netwriting to the literary scene Mark Twain discovered in San Francisco in the 1860s, "when people were reinventing journalism...