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...Security Council session, Japan, the resolution's primary sponsor, and the U.S. managed to get the votes of China and Russia on a measure that diplomats say could take a big bite out of North Korea's ability to perfect its long-range missiles and spread that technology to other dangerous states. They swayed the two typically reluctant players by dropping objectionable references to Chapter Seven of the U.N. Charter, which authorizes punishments for threats to "international peace and security" ranging from economic sanctions to military force...
...flash by: the coffins, soldiers near a burning car, Katrina victims at the Superdome, a gas-price sign. A red banner appears--red evil! Red scary!--reading, THINGS HAVE TAKEN A TURN FOR THE WORSE. We see Vice President Dick Cheney baring his teeth as if to take a bite out of a baby. Then a blue banner emerges--blue good! Blue safe!--as DCCC chairman Rahm Emanuel talks to cops and a toddler smiles in a swing. The caption assures us, BUT AMERICA IS STRONG ENOUGH TO CHANGE...
...signature sound bite of Benedict XVI's papacy may have been delivered the day before he became Pope. Just hours before entering the Sistine Chapel to help choose John Paul II's successor, then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger gave an impassioned sermon in which he decried the "dictatorship of relativism." The conservative German theologian used the phrase to warn against modernity's creation of a secular ideology "that does not recognize anything as definitive, and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's ego and desires." The "dictatorship of relativism" quote has become a rallying cry for some Roman Catholic conservatives...
...break in that barrier--even a tiny cut--there's a chance some bacteria will get inside and infect the wound. What makes MRSA germs particularly dangerous is that they excrete a potent toxin that attacks the skin, causing an abscess that's often mistaken for a spider bite. Normally, the body can wall that area off. But if the infection spreads, treatment with antibiotics may be called...
...Wordplay should prove "a feline bite (6)" - catnip - to the millions of crossword addicts, and to lots of others who enjoy a tough game played with smarts and heart. For me, the movie and its milieu induced a little ache of nostalgia. For a decade or so I solved the Times crossword every day. Then, in 1981, I discovered Sondheim's book of cryptics, and the devious, luxuriant word play had me hooked. Now I search them out in Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic (where they have been demoted to appearing only online - shame!), Games and the book collections...