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...silly waste of money. First, the excuses to build it have a lot to do with terrorism. But the [9/11] terrorists didn't come from Mexico. Second, there is the world economy. Everyone is talking about free trade, but the wall doesn't allow for free trade of labor - although it's needed...
...exactly what anti-HIV drugs, known as antiretrovirals (ARVs), are designed to do: interrupt the virus at various points along its nefarious journey. The FDA has approved four different classes of ARVs, each of which blocks a separate step in HIV's life cycle. The strategy is to build up a security detail of pharmacological agents that together thwart the virus at every turn, making sure that every receptor, protein and enzyme that the virus co-opts to sneak into a cell is covered...
Learning to write is a like buying a car. Going from dealership to dealership, you compare prices, consider features, and measure your desires against your means. Reading everything you can, you build your style from what observations you make of every model. That metaphor may be a bit awkward, but it’s still a bit helpful, no? Any number of ungraceful metaphors like this one can be extended to try and describe the difficult process of learning to write, and a book like “Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writer’s Guide?...
Admittedly, librarians are just trying to protect these children from the vulgarity and impropriety of the world, but their actions are in fact more detrimental to the maturity of children than they are helpful. If award-winning literature is not a valid source from which to build one’s knowledge, it is unclear what is. And ten years old—the age of the book’s heroine—is surely old enough to have developed the ability to cope with a few advanced anatomical terms...
...over the coming decades. "He says he's worried about the birds and the wildlife," said Mendez. "But his land is above the Guarani aquifer, one of the most important fresh water reserves in the world, only 700 kilometers [434 miles] from an airbase the United States plans to build in neighboring Paraguay...