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...individuals do not live or work in a vacuum. The ugly truth of the matter is that open homosexuality has an adverse impact on the performance of many other soldiers. Homophobia is an irrational fear--it is not a justification for behavior, but an explanation and an unfortunate fact. Everyone who, like myself, opposes the ban on gays in principle should recognize the inevitable consequences on morale and performance which would result from a lift on the ban. General Powell, after a long and distinguished career in the military, understands just that--probably better than anyone else. Thus...
...form distinct continents. As other animals disappeared wholesale, the dinosaurs evolved rapidly to fill vacant ecological niches. Says Sereno: "It's very difficult to argue that the dinosaurs had something the others didn't. Instead of evolving because they were better, maybe they evolved because there was a sudden vacuum." For whatever reason, the early mammals, although they arose at about the same period, remained bit players for the next 150 million years. "Mammals during this time," says Hans-Dieter Sues of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, "were nothing more than small, insect-eating organisms...
...VACUUM CLEANER OR WASHING MACHINE from Maytag's British subsidiary, Hoover, and get two air tickets to the U.S. or continental Europe, free! Sound like a good deal? You bet! Such a good deal, in fact, that Hoover sold tens of thousands of appliances -- far more than the company anticipated. Great! Right...
...Thanksgiving in 1991, Patricia Newlin, a lapsed Lutheran, met a young co- worker, a born-again Christian, on a business trip to Paris. They walked along the Seine in the shadow of Notre Dame and discussed the idea that we all carry around with us a God-shaped vacuum and try unceasingly to fill it with other things. "That notion just struck an incredibly responsive chord in me," remembers Newlin. She realized that she "had created an idol out of work, had sacrificed my time and effort to it, and it stopped working." She was baptized in January...
With the end of the cold war, nuclear apocalypticism has gone out of fashion. The vacuum is amply filled by the eco-catastrophists. The late '60s featured Paul Ehrlich's huge best seller, The Population Bomb, an astonishingly wrongheaded prediction of the End brought on by overpopulation -- by 1983. In the '70s, the Club of Rome predicted, with hilarious imprecision, a coming doomsday of uncontrollable pollution, wild overpopulation and resource depletion (by 1992, for example...