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...women represent more accurately that men the nation's hopes for such things as education of children I have fount that women have a more humanitarian approach," she said...
...alert researchers, the ordinary bathroom has long been a fount of fascinating scientific knowledge. Archimedes divined the principle of buoyancy while dunking in his tub. Modern researchers have written learned treatises on the vortex formed by water draining from a sink. Now two physicists have found that a bathroom is the perfect place to study another phenomenon: how splashing water generates atmospheric electricity...
...slightly older children have become a rarity. Paternal authority, long on the wane, is being undermined further. What the doctrines of Freud failed to do to father-and Freud himself is now old hat among the young-the knowledge explosion accomplished. After all, it is difficult to remain the fount of wisdom while the junior members of the family discourse expertly on the new physics. There is little force left in family rulings as to what careers to choose or where to go to school. For that matter, not going to college at all for a year or two-working...
...bill ventures to accomplish nothing more than to guarantee Negroes a right that is embedded in the 15th Amendment. But that is quite enough. For the right to vote is the fount from which all the other rights so long denied to Negroes must eventually flow...
Opening a Door. Apart from Article I's commerce clause, the fount of national regulatory power, no constitutional dreams have been harder to divine than the Bill of Rights, which the Court was called upon to invoke against the states in an 1833 Maryland case (Barron v. Baltimore). Quickly recoiling from that idea, the Court held that the Bill applied only against the Federal Government. After that, the states were free to ignore-and many did-the Constitution's most basic guarantees of civil liberties...