Word: viewpoints
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...people in New York City is still reminded of it daily in the newspapers. Besides receiving the spin cycle from advocacy groups and public relations officers, the incident has been cast in every imaginable light on editorial pages of the city's four major competing papers. But the viewpoint conspicuously missing from this media field day has been, ironically, the one that would be most relevant: The viewpoint of the attacks' very victims, young females...
...Christopher Buckley's peek into the totally wired society of the future is to be believed [VIEWPOINT, May 29], as it should be, the only people who retain a sliver of civility will be those we now regard as uncivilized--the ones who will not have had the opportunity to choose a personal digital assistant as their master. Orwell had it right. ERNEST M. HALLE Pittsburgh...
Your critic Farley gave an unfavorable review to Eminem's new album The Marshall Mathers LP. Farley had no place saying this album "lacks great beats" and "gets old quickly." Although there is nothing wrong with having a viewpoint, it would have been nice if Farley had pointed out both the good and bad qualities of the album. Thanks to this article, a lot of people are going to miss out on a great CD. MATT MARTIN San Carlos, Calif...
...From the viewpoint of bioengineering, a silicon chip is a large and rather complex shard of glass. Inserting a silicon chip into the human brain involves a certain irreducible inelegance of scale. It's scarcely more elegant, relatively, than inserting a steam engine into the same tissue. It may be technically possible, but why should we even want to attempt such a thing...
After reading Joel Stein's account of finding out his testosterone level [VIEWPOINT, April 24], I was convinced that his editors at TIME should give him a raise, no matter what his T level is. This was the most intelligent satirical piece I've ever read in TIME. Stein's suggestion that he would enjoy getting his dose of testosterone as pasta with a light sauce known as "testosteroni" was hilarious. DON PERRYMAN Roswell...