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Please explain to me how two people of the same sex who pledge to love each other in a legally recognized union are going to destroy marriage and by extension, society [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 16]? What is it about same-sex unions that heterosexuals find so threatening? Will more children be born out of wedlock? Will happily married couples call it quits because two men or two women are recognized as married? MARK F. PETERSON New York City
Another objection to fast food joints is that they will destroy the class character of Harvard Square, which is supposed to be more upscale than Central Square, where many of Cambridge's fast food restaurants reside. If higher class means ridiculously expensive finger food, then take me to Central...
...going through one of the most extreme periods of anti-immigration hate movements, which threaten to destroy what makes this country great," said Anker...
...dwindling of reefs in the world's oceans, scientists acknowledge, will not immediately destroy the organisms that build them. Many corals spawn en masse, releasing a vast pinkish slick of fertilized eggs that ride ocean currents for hundreds of miles. In the natural cycle, one reef rises as another declines. This cycle is what humans are now disrupting, however, and no one can foresee what the consequences will be. Creating more marine preserves can help, but even if the reefs are patrolled by armed guards, they may not be able to withstand the twin juggernauts of exploding population...
...entry into the body. The virus simply hunkered down inside a few of the immune system's T cells--the linchpins of the body's defensive forces--for anywhere from seven to 10 years. Then something, no one knew quite what, spurred the microbial invader to seek out and destroy all the other healthy T cells. It reproduced hundreds of thousands of copies of itself, laying waste to the immune system in the process and rendering its host vulnerable to all sorts of opportunistic infections...