Word: ideas
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...federal Judge Robert Peckham dismissed the crew's suit, tartly noting that despite the "novel legal theory" put forth by their attorneys, it was clear the couple had no intention of being injured by the train. Said Willson's attorney, Thomas Steel: "The decision has laid to rest the idea that a person who is run over can be sued for causing distress to the person that runs over...
...Colorado each picked up $4.1 million at the Orange Bowl. The Big Ten and Pac-10 conferences earned $5.5 each at the Rose Bowl. A play-off would mean even more money, but for only a few teams. Two years ago, Division I schools voted 98-13 against the idea...
Since the early 20th century, automakers have been tinkering half seriously with the idea of an electric car. Now, faced with potentially draconian air- quality regulations, automakers may be forced to start building such cars in earnest. Last week General Motors unveiled what it says is the most advanced electric car ever, a two-seater called the Impact...
That position did not garner much support until last spring, when France and Australia, two countries with a major presence in Antarctica, suddenly announced that they backed the world-park idea and would not sign the Wellington Convention. In Washington, Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee is leading a drive to get the U.S. to withdraw its support of the accord. Until the debate is resolved, there will be no agreed-upon strategy for protecting Antarctica from mineral exploration...
...none of that, pro or con, has a thing to do with theories of creation, or the origin of life on earth. In a sense, we are all creationists. We differ ! only on the specifics. The idea of linear time is so embedded in our consciousness that we instinctively believe there must have been a beginning, a creation, a genesis. But on what impulse, whose design? That we can never know...