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...ETHICS course taught last semester, a professor presented an age-old problem to his students. If a man is starving and without a job, is it acceptable for him to steal food for his family. The professor finished the lecture and the course without giving an answer...
...makers of an age-old form of birth control, the condom, are again doing a thriving business. After a decade of mediocre sales in the 1970s, the condom is rapidly regaining popularity. Some 500 million will be sold in the U.S. this year, a 15% increase over 1983. According to manufacturers, many people see them as a way to help prevent some kinds of venereal disease. Says Milton Bryson, marketing director for Youngs Drug Products, which makes the Trojans brand: "People have become much more health conscious." Other buyers choose the condom, which is more than 90% effective in preventing...
Among the issues that have been most distorted is the very nature of the Sikh-Hindu rift in the realm of religious doctrine. By stressing Sikh monotheism and opposition to the caste system in contrast to Hindu polytheism and age-old caste system. Western observers have presented the two religions as inherently hostile towards each other. Yet this interpretation misstates, the true nature of the Hindu religious tradition; the non-credal, non-dogmatic nature of Hinduism allows it to be extremely pluralistic and to uphold coexistence with the Christians, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs. Moreover, to pit Sikhism and Hinduism against...
...role in a Nehru dynasty. "I don't see it like that at all," he once said. "There's a very big challenge before us today: how to get India into the 20th century." He speaks of the need to eliminate the vestiges of colonialism and the country's age-old social inequities. "We must get the poor and the weak of India out of their rut, out of the morass they are stuck in," he said recently. Most political experts see him as a pragmatist, like his late brother, who favors a somewhat larger place for private enterprise within...
Allegro Brilliante and Giselle both portray relationships between a man and a woman. In Giselle the story follows the age-old theme of a shy, young girl meeting the impetuous, passionate boy. Balanchine abstracts this theme in Allegro Brilliante. The paradigm of love is no longer a tender glance or a sweet embrace, but a pas de deux--the balletic interpretation of the partnership between the sexes...