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...abortion is "the wrong thing to do," but that the government does not have "any business preventing a women from having an abortion." Kwan concludes that "Americans are reluctant to impose their morals on the great public." But we do this all the time--they're called laws. The logic here seems to say, 'don't like abortion? Then don't have one.' If we extend this line of logic, we would find ourselves saying, 'Don't like murder? Then don't murder anyone,' or 'don't like drunk driving? Then don't drive drunk.' It's not sufficient that...
...cerebral cortex, an intricately folded layer of neural tissue which is much larger and more complex in humans than in any other animal, is thought to be responsible for many of the so-called "higher brain functions"--such as the reasoning and logic capabilities which are unique to humans...
Bronson is almost as unkind to Lloyd Acheson, the chief executive of Omega Logic, the fictional middle-size firm caught between giant Intel and the upstart VWPC. Like the real-life executive Jim Clark, who left Silicon Graphics to co-found Netscape, Acheson bails out of the hardware-manufacturing business and co-founds "Everyware Corp." with Benoit. Clark, of course, became an instant Internet multimillionaire when Netscape went public. By the end of Bronson's tale, Acheson and Benoit too are "skipping the conventional second and third round financings...and gunning straight for a public offering...
Perhaps the most intriguing character to ID is Andy Caspar, the 26-year-old protagonist whose exit interview ("You understand that your memory ... is also the property of Omega Logic?") opens the book. His tireless idealism is the catalyst that creates the low-cost alternative to Omega's overpriced computers. In the end, Omega is forced to hire Caspar back to lead the company's Internet effort. Does the name of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs--whose public grudge against his old firm disappeared as soon as he was rehired to provide Apple with a badly needed Internet-friendly operating...
...cynical view is that Senators have lost their enthusiasm for campaign reform as they contemplate the fund-raising advantages of incumbency. Or maybe they have simply been persuaded by Mitch McConnell's logic. Maybe they are stopping him in the Senate cloakroom to say things like, "That yogurt image really changed my thinking on this issue, Mitch...