Word: correcting
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...earned applause from some of Japan's former enemies, like the U.S. and Britain. But the reaction in South Korea and China was more muted. China's Foreign Ministry called the remarks "positive," but added, "Some people in Japanese society, including political circles, are still unable to adopt a correct attitude toward the history of that period." Tens of millions of people died as a result of Japan's attempt to seize control of Asia; in the Rape of Nanjing as many as 300,000 Chinese were slaughtered by Imperial troops...
This image, however, is the product of imaginative folklore, stubborn myth and terrible p.r. The bat, say scientists, is actually one of nature's most dazzling and precious creations. Today researchers are striving to correct common misapprehensions about them--and racing to save them from extinction. Last week in Boston, the largest ever convocation of bat experts met to trade new findings from the weird and wonderful world of bats. Among recent discoveries...
Rock samples from the Atlantic section of the range--which, when examined closely, proved to be newly formed--provided striking evidence that the theory is correct. But an even more dramatic confirmation came from the Pacific, where black clouds of superheated, mineral-rich water were discovered spewing from chimney-like mounds on the sea bottom--evidence that the rocks below still carried tremendous heat from their relatively recent formation...
...politically-correct answer for this broad-based retreat is that, in the post-Cold War age, we would do well to push our financial and political weight towards more pressing issues such as the advancement of our economic interests. Germany and Japan have enjoyed their outstanding economic growth, it is argued, in large part due to their non-military status; we must avoid whenever possible the exorbitant costs of international policing if we hope to partake in this prosperity. The consequences of such a policy would compromise economic and political relations as well as our strategic links abroad. Indeed, while...
...conservative rhetors in Congress, whatever is not blandly or angrily populist is elitist. In their resort to this weasel word, the patriotically correct on the right are as bad as the politically correct on the residual left--worse, in fact, because they have more power. How all these folk would hate Thomas Jefferson if he walked back in with his idea that democracy was meant to foster a "natural aristocracy" of talent and intelligence. Naked elitism...