Word: absurdities
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...discredited science. Distinguishing AIDS in Africa as a primarily heterosexual phenomenon that is destined to slash average life expectancy in his region to 47, Mbeki insisted that "as Africans we have to deal with this uniquely African catastrophe" and that simply accepting Western conventional wisdom on AIDS would be "absurd and illogical." Mbeki's remarks, in letter to President Clinton - which administration officials considered so unfortunate that they tried to avoid releasing it to the media - even likened those warning against the views of dissident AIDS scientists to the repressive apartheid regime and book-burning religious fanatics...
This thought was reinforced over this past weekend in the Stanley Cup playoffs. There was everything from the disastrously dramatic to the unbelievably absurd...
...After our sophomore year, we took time off to focus on the band. One of our guys, Eric Pfeiffer '81, was from Montana and got us a tour there through an agent he knew. We did this totally absurd tour of roadhouses in Montana during the summer of '80. It was a real kick in the ass...a real Blues Brothers type of scenario: people throwing stuff, getting fired in the middle of gigs. I had an interesting conversation with a guy in Eureka, which is just ten miles from the Canadian border. It's the kind of place where...
...Reporters had an] insufficient sense of the absurd," Mamet wrote...
...decide to spend the money to do it. We may or may not decide to build a 100-mile-a-second spacecraft within 100 years, but we know that it is technically possible. The cost of developing a 100-mile-a-second spacecraft would be large but not absurd...