Word: comforting
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...might have been the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground or the Watergate plotters. In the jungle that has replaced civilization, reason gives way to armed self-defense. When another human does show up, and Heston gives her a rifle, she asks what it's for and he replies, "Comfort...
...especially as the country's great network of Catholic hospitals wrestles with novel problems of medical ethics. "Through the great sphere of worldly experience that the Church has in America," Benedict wrote, "as well as through her faith experience, decisive influences can be passed on." He has shown his comfort with the direct and thoroughly American approach by appointing Americans to the No. 1 and No. 3 spots in his powerful former office...
...smoking in the first place. Cancer risk aside, smoking also increases the risk of emphysema and heart disease; what's more, smokers without the genetic variants are not at all protected from developing lung cancer or any other smoking-related disease. "Nothing in these papers should give people comfort in terms of continuing smoking," says Edelman, "even after they have their genetic profiles looked at. But if we can use this information to develop better approaches to smoking cessation, then we can reduce the amount of smoking-related disease enormously...
...This will be cold comfort to Israel as it watches Iran smuggle advanced rockets into Lebanon that now supposedly can hit almost every part of the country. Chances are there will be a regional war before anyone is ready to sit down and seriously discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict...
...international than he thinks. Mariam Salehe, a college student from Frankfurt, Germany, arrived at Terminal 5 at noon only to learn her flight home would leave at seven. Bathed in light filtering from the glass ceiling panels and standing near a sleekly designed check-in desk, she took little comfort in her surroundings. "It doesn't matter that it's beautiful," she says. "I just want...