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Senator Sam Ervin, co-author of the bill, proudly calls it "one of the most important pieces of legislation considered during my service in the Senate." Republican Senator Charles Percy, another coauthor, claims that it is "one of the historic turning points in the evolution of our institutions." The bill...
In a passage of virtuoso understatement, Miss Dillard meticulously records the death of a small frog sucked dry by a giant water bug, and with eerie calm reports an afternoon she spent sitting beside a copperhead. "Evolution loves death more than it loves you and me," she quietly concludes. And...
Explanations for this rash of fan violence, however, must focus on the evolution of both the fans' and the players' attitudes.
Literate Articles. Macropaedia readers will still find the literate, initialed articles by world-renowned experts that are the Britannica's hallmark -but, say the editors, without the overlaps, omissions and inconsistencies of earlier editions. There is Arnold Toynbee on Julius Caesar and leading American Catholic Theologian John L. McKenzie...
A breakthrough could also lead to the kind of social evolution that might help prevent the conflicts that now set man against man and nation against nation. "Most of our evolution has been somatic," says Schmitt. "We've changed our shape. But if we could really understand ourselves and...