Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...country is not easy. Every Afghan passport issued has to be personally signed by the Minister or Deputy Minister of the Interior and costs the equivalent of $500. But by exploiting connections, or by bribery, many middle-class Afghans are getting passports. After that hurdle, they have to explain to their employers why they want to leave. Feigned illness of a spouse requiring treatment abroad (particularly in Pakistan or India) is one ploy. Others who have dependents without passports have escaped in more daring ways. Taxis with cramped, hidden compartments built under back seats have smuggled some from Jalalabad...
...date last year by James E. Horigan, a Denver lawyer intrigued by scientific theory. In Chance or Design? (Philosophical Library; $13.95) he contends that narrowly antireligious Darwinism ignores the way in which inanimate nature is in harmony with organic evolution. Nor, he asserts, can evolutionary theory possibly explain the rapid emergence of the large brain in the developing human species...
...time Adler embraced Aquinas' proof, then for decades he thought it did not work because although everything in the universe is contingent, nothing ceases to exist absolutely (e.g. burning wood only changes form), so no God is needed to explain the existence of contingent things. Last May he suddenly changed his mind again after applying the "possible worlds" approach. Adler speculated that the universe is only one of many possible universes, any of which -including this actual universe-can just as easily not exist as exist. The universe is "radically contingent," the only thing capable of not existing...
...stint as a court reporter for the Associated Press, developed through law school and appointments as a Massachusetts assistant attorney general and an Assistant U.S. Attorney, and continues in the criminal-law practice he has maintained in Boston since 1973. "The hardest thing in this business is to explain just what you can and can't do for a client," he says. "There is a good reason why 85% to 90% of all criminal cases brought by a competent prosecutor end up in defense pleas; nobody can win them...
...have no word to explain the shock," Shibama said, after describing the hundreds of people wandering silently through the city with their clothes burned off and skin hanging from their bodies...