City of neighborhoods–for raccoons too. Jill Riddell in Chicago Wilderness (Summer) on recent radio-collar studies of raccoons: “Raccoons raised in a forest preserve tend to remain in that preserve, while raccoons born inside the urban matrix will likely continue to reside in the city or suburban neighborhood they are familiar with.”
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When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. According to a catalog description, in a forthcoming book New York University professor of politics Steven Brams uses game theory “to build a detailed assessment of God’s character and motivations, including the reasons for His frequently wrathful behavior….He also extends the game-theoretic analysis, using the theory of moves, to study a counterfactual situation–what if Abraham had refused God’s command to sacrifice Isaac?–and to examine the rationality of believing in a superior being” (MIT Press, fall 2002 catalog).
No history please–we’re Americans. “Genetic ‘enhancement,’ as it is euphemistically called, will eventually become a eugenics project meant to perfect the genetic composition of the human race,” writes Jean Bethke Elshtain of the University of Chicago in last year’s fall issue of the Wilson Quarterly. “But our public life is so dominated by short-term considerations that someone who brings to the current genetic debate such a historical understanding sounds merely alarmist.”
