When Speech Is Divorced From

The Average Parent May, For Example, Plant An Artist Or Fertilize A Ballet Dancer And End Up With A Certified Public Accountant. We Cannot Train Children Along Chicken Wire To Make Them Grow In The Right Direction. Tying Them To Stakes Is Frowned Upon, Even In Massachusetts.

When You Live Alone, You Can Be Sure That The Person Who Squeezed The Toothpaste Tube In The Middle Wasn't Committing A Hostile Act.

In The Biotech Revolution, It Is The Human Body, Not Iron Or Steel Or Plastic, That's At The Source. Are The Biocapitalists Going To Be Allowed To Dig Without Consent Into Our Genetic Codes, Then Market Them?

Forty Is ... An Age At Which People Have Histories And Options. At Thirty, They Had Perhaps Less History. At Fifty, Perhaps Fewer Options.

I Am A Member Of A Small, Nearly Extinct Minority Group, A Kind Of Urban Lost Tribe Who Insist, In The Face Of All Evidence To The Contrary, On The Sanctity Of Being On Time. Which Is To Say That We On-timers Are Compulsively, Unfashionably Prompt, That There Are Only Handfuls Of Us In Any Given City And, Unfortunately, We Never Seem To Have Appointments With Each Other.