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...timing re-elected Cuba to its human rights commission last week, has given Castro little more than a slap on the wrist - as have his Latin American neighbors. But Europe's legions of Castro admirers, from politicians to artists, are increasingly siding with Payá, a phenomenon that could dampen European enthusiasm for travel to Cuba, which is often driven by the island's chic revolutionary cachet. Portugal's Nobel-prizewinning novelist, José Saramago, once a Castro admirer, wrote in a stinging editorial last month that "this is as far as I go" with Cuba's revolution...
...maybe there really is too much extracurricular activity, or maybe, as John Lithgow and others have sometimes feared, the wrong kind of curricular arts instruction, by tenured hacks, would dampen the extracurricular spirit that Arts First celebrates...
...body, the more likely you are to develop allergic reactions to otherwise harmless stuff, like peanuts. IgE-triggered allergies also seem to play a role in certain cases of asthma. Over the past decade, researchers have developed specialized compounds, called monoclonal antibodies, to block the action of IgE and dampen the body's allergic reactions...
Distance once helped dampen the effects of human wickedness, and weapons once had limited range. But evil has burst into a new dimension. The globalization, democratization and miniaturization of the instruments of destruction (nuclear weapons or their diabolical chemical-biological stepbrothers) mean a quantum leap in the delivery systems of evil. This levels the playing field--and the level field has fungus on it. Every tinhorn with a chemistry set becomes a potential world-historical force with more discretionary destructive power at hand than the great old monsters, from Caligula to Stalin, ever had. In the new dimension, micro-evil...
...Distance once helped dampen the effects of human wickedness, and weapons once had limited range. But evil has burst into a new dimension. The globalization, democratization and miniaturization of the instruments of destruction (nuclear weapons or their diabolical chemical-biological stepbrothers) mean a quantum leap in the delivery systems of evil. This levels the playing field - and the level field has fungus on it. Every tinhorn with a chemistry set becomes a potential world-historical force with more discretionary destructive power at hand than the great old monsters, from Caligula to Stalin, ever had. In the new dimension, micro-evil...