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...common denominator in each case: abnormal weather had caused malnutrition, weakened animal immune systems and spurred the reproduction of viruses. Epstein also notes that once ordinarily benign microbes invade weakened animals, they can become sufficiently deadly to invade healthy populations. The real threat for people, says Epstein, may not be a single disease, but armies of emergent microbes raising havoc among a host of creatures. "The message I take home," he says, "is that diseases afflicting plants and animals can send ripples through economies and societies no less disastrous than those affecting humans...
...some of these shows, such as the proliferating Star Trek spin-offs, the aliens are benign, intellectually curious--like American mid-century liberals, only with pointy ears or exposed frontal lobes. The Zeitgeistiest programs, however, tap into a pop persecution mania. Consider this: the U.S. stands unchallenged as a world power, is not at war, enjoys a high standard of living and has relatively stable rates of interest and unemployment; yet polls continue to show a profound malaise. People feel crushed by government, abused by corporate employers, baffled by computers. "Technology is moving fast-forward," says Carter, "and we rarely...
...long had a history of such "benign tolerance." Administrators, many of whom have close ties to the airline industry, have taken great pleasure in touting the billions of dollars consumers save by flying upstart airlines like ValuJet. At the same time, the agency has been reluctant to force companies to use new technology, insisting on proof that the benefits outweigh the costs to the airlines. In the late '80s, for instance, the agency dragged its feet on requiring the installation of the ground-proximity warning system in commuter airlines, even though this simple device could have prevented a number...
...thing. Felony possession of four controlled substances with intent to distribute, within a drug-free zone, is another matter entirely. While HUPD is there to help Harvard students, it is also obliged to enforce the law, and ignoring a felony drug operation would go far beyond the "benign neglect" referred to by Mr. Aibel. There is a point at which the actions of individual students may threaten the security of the community, and at that point it is the responsibility of the police to act. The police have encountered safety problems with students under the unlawful influence of alcohol...
Kienholz wasn't a Pop artist; there was nothing benign or accommodating in his view of mass culture. To him the TV set was both America's anus and its oracle. He was a history artist, working in a real-things-in-the-real-world vernacular that was, by turns, scabrous, brazenly rhetorical and morally obsessed. Compared with the thin, overconceptualized gruel that most political art in postmodern America has become--the stuff the Whitney normally favors--Kienholz was red meat all the way. Which doesn't mean that his output was uniformly good. An item like The Ozymandias Parade...