Sublime

The Berlin press badgered the Prussian ruler, Frederick William IV, to do something about the disaster. Finally, the public outcry forced the government to form a commission of investigation, under the direction of the Privy Councillor for Health. Rudolf Virchow’s “strongest desire” was fulfilled when he was named medical officer to the commission.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act

Sheriff Joe Arpaio

The EAs didn’t need his empathy; the EAs thought that even they shouldn’t care about their feelings. In their single-minded quest to maximize the utility of their lives, they were seeking to minimize the effect of their feelings. “The way they put it to me is that their emotions are getting in the way of their ability to reduce their decisions to j

Goad had been corresponding for a while with Richard Ramirez, who as the “Night Stalker” was responsible for killing over a dozen people. “After I sent him the Rape issue, his letters stopped,” recalls Goad. “One of Ramirez’s pen pals later informed me that Ricky had asked him, ‘Don’t you think that issue went a little too far?’”

Terry showed no such consciousness.

Schjelderup-Ebbe had discovered that in the world of chickens there is a social hierarchy, a division into aristocrats and commoners—a lower, middle, and upper class. The alert researcher called the phenomenon a “pecking-order.”355 It wasn’t long before naturalists were discovering similar social orders in a bewildering variety of species.556 Resea