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...This gives them an enormous evolutionary advantage, as scientists have learned to their dismay. If only a tiny fraction of a species has resistance to a new man-made spray that wipes out the remainder, for example, the few survivors can quickly multiply into a huge insect population with built-in immunity to the insecticide...
Then Cambridge. The Charles a muddy sink with built-in garbage disposal. Walden Pond a kiddie matinee. Faucet water flat and stale as month-old Fritos. And even then, no shower attachment in the house. Sisters, mothers, water brothers, no place to go once a laughing river seduces you and runs away...
...human behavior. You are expected to conform to the Naval Academy's standards for behavior and its regulations. If you are caught committing a breach of conduct or an "offense," you are punished and pay the price. At West Point, the system, in addition to having the built-in potential for abuse also has the built-in mechanism for self-destruction pointed out in your article. It is somewhat analogous to the zealous Red Guard self-destruction syndrome which became a part of the Cultural Revolution in Red China. Systems like these are born in fear and inadequacy...
Tremendous Problem. He did not always feel that way. Even when he announced his withdrawal in the fall of 1974, Kennedy believed he could win the presidency if he went after it-despite Chappaquiddick. He thought that he would start off any campaign with a large built-in vote, even as high as 45%. "The last 6% or so would come hard," he used to say. But he told close friends he could not put his family through a campaign that was sure to become poisonous. Most people translated that to mean he feared the political pressures would...
Outlandishly successful pop novelists rarely take the money and run. Against all the nudgings of reason, they insist on plunging once more. The critical risk is great, of course-reviewers and remaindered colleagues are poised to carp. Yet the built-in publicity is there waiting for them, and with it, perhaps, the long-suffering reader...