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Rape has always been viewed as one of the most abhorrent of crimes. The new cate- gory of date or acquaintance rape expands the definition to cover a multitude of situa- tions ,in'which, as the editors of Acquaint-ance Rape: The Hidden Crime (1991) put it, "verbal or psychological coercion" is used to "overpower" the woman. Over-coming a woman's resistance with words, Podhoretz observes, "has in the past been universally known as seduction."
But to many feminists,...
the "evenhandedness" of the news, he contends. "The idea that all 'viewpoints' are somehow equal is the reason that we
do so badly in arguing our great social is-
sues." Yet at the same time, the news me-
dia-in the absence of any agreed upon
scale of values-may arbitrarily make
some particular value or cause, such as
helping the homeless, supremely impor-
tant. But only for the moment. Tomor-
row's news is almost sure to bring some
newer and more urgent concern. The...
47 percent, and almost two-thirds of the new clients credited the program as the catalyst for their visits.
Other countries have since begun to use television to promote family planning and other social causes, including several Latin
Vasectomies increased in Brazil after a pro-va-sectomy TV spot featuring animated "inale" and
"female" hearts was aired in 1989.
American countries, Kenya, Turkey, and India. In the Philippines, to encourage sex- ual responsibility among young...
Maurice Cranston, in Quud-rant (Mar. 1991), 46 George St., Fitzroy, Victoria, 3065, Austra-
Toleration lia.
Voltaire (1 694- 1778), battling religious ex- tremism in France but lacking any influ- ence on government or politicians, sought to persuade his countrymen to exercise more personal tolerance. English philoso- pher John Locke (1 632-1704), contrast, championed toleration as public policy- but thought it had limits. Locke's biogra- pher, Maurice Cranston, believes that both men's views ar...
cal disguise."
"Saving Therapy: Exploring the Religious Self-Help Literature' ~e ligion Wendy Kaminer, in Theology Today (Oct. 1991), P.O. Box As Therapy 29, Princeton, N.J. 08542.
Millions of Americans read religious self- help books. M. Scott Peck's first tome, The Road Less Traveled (1978), was on the best-seller list for years, and works by such authors as Charles (Grace Awakening) Swindoll and Gordon (Renewing Your Spiritual Passion) MacDonald also have worldwide audiences. Such...
cal disguise."
"Saving Therapy: Exploring the Religious Self-Help Literature' ~e ligion Wendy Kaminer, in Theology Today (Oct. 1991), P.O. Box As Therapy 29, Princeton, N.J. 08542.
Millions of Americans read religious self- help books. M. Scott Peck's first tome, The Road Less Traveled (1978), was on the best-seller list for years, and works by such authors as Charles (Grace Awakening) Swindoll and Gordon (Renewing Your Spiritual Passion) MacDonald also have worldwide audiences. Such...
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forests annually-a loss of 4,000 species
-per year if there are 2 million in the for- ests, and 40,000 if there are 20 million. Biodiversity is important for more than moral and aesthetic reasons, they say; it provides "enormous direct economic benefits. . . in the form of foods, medi- cines, and industrial products." To save "our fellow living creatures and ourselves in the long run," Ehrlich and Wilson pro- pose a radical worldwide ban on the devel- opment of "relatively...
any scientist's standard. To discard a drop, he had to find some mistake that would invalidate that datum." So he did. It
was not fraud, Goodstein says, just exercise of scien- tific judgment.
The fine line between "harmless fudging" and real fraud is an important one, Goodstein maintains. If the work, and everything that flowed from it, of New- ton, Millikan, Ptolemy, Hip- parchus of Rhodes, Galileo, John Dalton, and Gregor Mendel-all accused Broad and Wade of involve- ment in...
(Nov. 11, 1991), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
Hailed many critics as authentic street
group N.W.A., or Niggers With Attitude,
music and damned by others for the same
was the best-selling record in America.
reason, rap music has taken the country by
In the past, notes Samuels, a Mellon Fel-
storm. Last summer, Niggaz4life, a celebra-
low at Princeton, black music (such as jazz
tion of gang rape and other violence b...
the Beastie Boys, a white punk rock band that Rubin transformed into a rap group.
But Samuels writes that Rubin and oth- ers soon found that "the more rappers were packaged as violent black criminals, the bigger their white audiences be- came. . . . Rap's appeal to whites rested in its evocation of an age-old image of black- ness: a foreign, sexually charged, and criminal underworld against which the norms of white society are defined, and, extension, through which they may be de- fied."...