Word: willful
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For physicists, then, time is an exceedingly complex and slippery concept. No wonder St. Augustine couldn't explain it. But when the month, the year, the century and the millennium end next week, it's a fair bet that theoretical physicists, like the rest of us, will be partying to...
Thomas Thompson, a New Mexico forensic psychologist, insists that ASPs are "hardwired to act out," and that "they lack free will." His evaluations recently helped convert the sentences of two death-row inmates to life in prison. Yet Thompson's brand of biological determinism sets off alarms for many. "The...
It seems only appropriate that cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, 77 and recently diagnosed with colon cancer, should decide to retire Peanuts in winter. It's the setting of so many of the strips (the last daily one will appear Jan. 3) and the season that best captures his graceful art...
Still, the campaign is about to bear at least some fruit. Following a series of meetings between network chiefs and N.A.A.C.P. officials in Baltimore over the past couple of weeks, the four networks are close to an agreement to implement a series of diversity initiatives, while the N.A.A.C.P. has all...
Diversity on TV is not exactly a front-burner issue for many African Americans either. And it's likely that Mfume will face some grumbling from civil rights old-liners that any goodwill covenant with the networks that lacks enforcement teeth is not worth much. But Mfume may wind up...