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America's problem is not inhibition. It is exhibition. What the President and the polity and the pedagogues should be preaching is racial decency. Respect. Restraint. Manners. The lesson ought to be: Whatever your innermost feelings--and we have no idea, despite the claims of pop psychology, how to change inner feelings--we demand certain behavior. That is what the civil rights laws are about. They do not mandate a pure society. They mandate right conduct amid impurity...
Under the guiding narrative of Dyson, once called "the most powerful woman in the Net-erati" by the New York Times Magazine, this glossy volume carries the reader through 11 chapters brimming with anecdotal evidence of the author's familiarity with the innermost workings of cyberspace, both as we know it and as Dyson predicts it shall be. Subjects range from the structure of the Net and its usefulness in binding citizens into communities, to the ever-present dilemma of governance and regulation within the electronic realm...
...that it lived in heaven in an interim state of blessedness but eagerly anticipated a bodily reunion. That doesn't even address the issue of purgatory.) Exactly where was heaven anyway? The most beautiful explanation had it surrounding the outermost of nine nested spheres, of which earth was the innermost, and composed of a substance that was neither earth, air, fire nor water but rather a marvelous "fifth essence"--or, as the word has come down to us, the "quintessence...
Politics is full of our innermost fears, joys and passions not because the personal is political, but because the personal does not exist. Laws are directly tied to loves. Loves and love, because one-ness reduces us to an empty conception of "self" that has no meaning out of context, forcing us into a model of relating to others which ignores the multiplicity of our inherent possibilities...
...treatment centers is not grounded in any hard calculus. Despite some gains, cancer death rates remain unacceptably high (see chart), and the disease will kill 554,740 people in the U.S. this year. Rather, the optimism stems from an extraordinarily rich epoch of scientific discovery that has revealed the innermost secrets of malignant cells and suggested rational strategies for attacking them. "Until we knew what was wrong with the cancer cell," says oncologist Dr. Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University, "we couldn't even think about ways of targeting treatment...