It has served its purpose and has become an outdated, unwieldy, even dangerous anachronism.

As highway design goes in this country, traffic circles - also known as roundabouts and rotaries - have become a dangerous anachronism, especially on many New Jersey state roads groaning under the weight of traffic.

Pentagon officials acknowledge that the flights may seem provocative, and that in an age of spy satellites, placing American lives at risk in turboprop planes may seem like a dangerous anachronism.

But critics of the corps contend that its insular, male-dominated culture is a dangerous anachronism for a modern university and that its ingrained traditions include a bias against women.

A group of 23 Democratic senators recognize this dangerous anachronism.

"M-m, they talk about conflicts between societies getting out of hand, sometimes murderously, and plots by one to harm another-" Human disorder, human unreason, dangerous anachronisms.

To the Editor: Phil Hall ("Outlaw Bounty Hunters," letter, Sept. 2) may be right that bounty hunters are a dangerous anachronism, but he misses the real problem at the heart of the tragic deaths of Spring Wright and Chris Foote.

Has the treaty not become a dangerous anachronism?

In a country not lacking for law enforcement officers, bounty hunters are a dangerous anachronism.

The absence of unifying electronic medical records among hospitals and practitioners is an absurd and dangerous anachronism in this age when any teen-ager can carry a multi-player hockey video game around on a cell-phone.