Word: absurdities
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...seem a little absurd that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are in Washington reprising the Camp David talks even as their followers continue to shoot at one another back home. Not least to the negotiators themselves, it appears, following reports that the suits on both sides almost came to blows in Thursday's session. But conventional wisdom holds that a peace deal with the Palestinians remains the key to Ehud Barak's chances of reelection, and that has encouraged an unlikely optimism among some observers of the talks. Still, the Israeli election on February 6 gives the talks...
Under the current format of Major League Baseball, the Yankees will never finish lower than third place in their division. Never. The Twins will never finish higher than third. Never. It just won't happen. That statement alone is absolutely absurd. In the history of professional sports, there has never been as much inequality as there is now in Major League Baseball...
George W. Bush went ahead that night with a party at the governor's mansion for his administrative staff and his security detail. But he had watched the Florida ruling on television, found it absurd and wanted to get away. He woke up early Saturday, called communications director Karen Hughes around 6:30 and asked, "Have we won yet?" Aides briefed him on the state of play, and he shot off some e-mails before heading out. "I'll be at the ranch," he said to his aides. "Let me know what happens." Then he drove to Crawford, where...
Sometimes it is a theater of the absurd...
...laboratory, consumers in Europe and, to an increasing extent, the U.S., are jittery about "unnatural" produce. Consumers' fears are irrational because there have been no scientific studies linking commercially available genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to disease. And despite the benefits to both farmers and consumers, some opponents continue leveling absurd charges against GMOs and holding them to impossible standards. In his Dec. 4 column "Biotechnology: Bad Technology" Rohan R. Gulrajani argued that GMOs are wrong because "technologies whose side effects cannot be completely controlled fail to meet all the purposes for which they were created and therefore are insufficient." This...