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...criterion for an injunction is, among other things, that the plaintiff should be able to prove that irreparable harm is going to occur between now and the completion of the case. That may not be so easy. Although Napster might seem to be taking sales away from the record companies, CD sales have actually increased in the Napster era--by $500 million this year alone...
PREDICTING DIVORCE Marriage researchers can now do more than predict whether a couple will divorce, they can predict when the split will occur. A 14-year study of marital dynamics sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health found that couples who divorced in mid-life tended to be cool and distant. By suppressing emotions, the couples stayed together until a mid-life crisis brought those feelings to the surface. Marriages that ended in the first seven years, by contrast, were characterized by high levels of positive and negative emotions. Apparently, "hot" behavior tends to burn out a relationship early...
Karl Marx famously noted that the great events of history tend to occur twice - first as tragedy and then as farce. Back in the spring of 1968, Prague's storied streets and squares were filled with idealistic young people armed only with a passionate commitment to freedom as they waged a doomed battle against Soviet tanks. Twenty-two years later, those streets are once again filled with idealistic young people, but this time the target of their ire is not communism, but global capitalism. The spectacle of demonstrators on the streets brandishing the same hammer-and-sickle logo that...
...patches of open water near the North Pole is not a new one caused by man-made influences or by this generation. Historical evidence documents the presence of crops in Greenland for a few centuries after it was settled by the Vikings, a millennium ago. These atmospheric climate changes occur naturally. The sky isn't falling, and we aren't permanently melting the polar ice. LOREN D. HAMLIN Tucson, Ariz...
Part of the reason that professional sports records are so coveted is because they occur in the natural course of a game or a season or a career. The Streak should not have dictated Ripken's decision to play or not to play. Motivation should be as important as the action it produces...