Re Elizabeth Royte's review of "Moby-Duck," by Donovan Hohn ("Toys at Sea," March 6): The thousands of bath toys that fell off a container ship in the northern Pacific in 1992 should be a wake-up call to all who attempt to sidestep the consequences of their mindless consumption of plastics.
"We will no longer as a society, for much longer, sidestep the consequences of the things that we say," she said.
The differences may be attributable to allelic differences, or the canine mutation may have distinct tissue-specific consequences that sidestep cardiovascular and pulmonary effects.
If, as Trivers contends, our deception occurs early enough that conflicting information from the outside world can simply be ignored, we can successfully sidestep many of the negative consequences mentioned above.
But the Femsa deal sidesteps the issue.
Mr. Jackson swiftly sidestepped the issue.
Thus, OC self-control efforts, designed to sidestep social difficulties, function to create the very consequences that OC individuals fear the most.
Human pride or arrogance makes us think we are impervious to the gravitational pull of consequences and that we can dodge and sidestep the inevitable results of our actions in the world.
This kind of shift to specifics would not be intellectually or politically easy, because it requires priority setting and chain thinking about local connections and consequences; but the shift is attractive because it sidesteps the absurdities of the ranking game.
Never well known enough to be other than a private face, he did not have to deal with the consequences of reputation, did not have to imitate himself, for instance, or sidestep his fame as his better-known colleagues had to learn to do.
