Word: calling
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...quick to admit, is not one that science is capable of solving. To some extent, we may learn how it happened, when it happened, but never why, any more than we can bound infinity or clock eternity. Neither scientists nor religious folk can know why the miracle we call life happened, how it acquired such characteristics as thought, a sense of beauty, hope, conscience, love, piety and speculation about itself...
From the beginning there were questions about his story, but few would have believed that Stuart would shoot his wife in the head at point-blank range, then turn the gun on himself. The tape recording of his anguished ten-minute call to 911 from his Toyota Cressida, as his wife lay dying beside him, etched the crime in Boston's consciousness. "My wife's been shot. I've been shot," Stuart cried as a police dispatcher tried to keep him on the line long enough to determine his location. But Stuart gave no clues. He moaned...
...difficulties is the expectation that now the rules have changed, the whole system will. But expectations haven't changed," Wilson says. "People don't have a sense of it in their bones. We don't call on women [as authorities on an issue...
...problem set which Glick criticizes is intended to illustrate this principle. Should a nation of 100 people choose an economic system (let's call it the Great Society) which provides every citizen with an income of $2, or a less drastically egalitarian one, which provides 99 citizens with $100,000 apiece and only $1 for the last unlucky stiff...
That organizing process got haltingly under way last week. Citizens' committees in provincial cities such as Timisoara, where the revolt ignited in mid-December, refused the call to "subordinate" themselves, and demanded a role in the National Salvation Front. Workers who joined students in the streets of Craiova, a southwestern industrial town, for example, had no more coherent a plan than the warning "Beware of the wolf in sheep's clothing...