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...that their jobs would survive if the warm, nourishing flow of federal dollars were cut off, cold turkey. That would be the "free market" solution, which has already cost 300,000 defense workers their jobs since 1989. Weapons firms are notoriously loath to beat their swords into plowshares: Why brave the rigors of the market if you've been suckled on cost-plus contracts? It's easier to mail out the pink slips...
...test also takes society right into the brave new world of genetic screening, raising the specter of eugenically minded parents throwing out embryo after embryo in search of the "perfect" child. And while it promises to reduce the number of abortions later in pregnancy, it is already drawing fire from those who oppose the taking of any human life, no matter how small. "Once you've joined the male sperm with the female egg, it's a human being," says Robert Powell, vice president of the National Right to Life Committee. "You're killing the very youngest of human beings...
...have watched this community grow and come together slowly over the past 20 years. This CASPAR center would destroy the already frayed fabric of this brave community...
Stannard's chronicle begins with Waugh as a marine officer yearning to fight for king and country. Indubitably brave, he saw little combat, unless one counts his skirmishes with superiors who thought, correctly, that he lacked discipline. As Stannard mildly notes, "Waugh's habit of striding into offices and demanding attention irritated the military bureaucrats." By the time he died of a coronary thrombosis at 63, Brideshead Revisited (published in 1945) and the Sword of Honour trilogy (completed in 1961) had sealed his reputation as one of the century's great masters of English prose. They had also established...
...they will not harm us. So far, they have kept their word, but we don't know about the future." Meantime, they try to lead normal lives, harvesting their plums to sell to Serb neighbors for making slivovitz. Though most are afraid to leave the village, a few brave souls carry food each day to the men at the Trnopolje camp...