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...Hirsch: "Dental decay, nearsightedness, no knee reflex ((correct...
...Flora, the principal wildlife-protection treaty, the global market in "medicinal" animal parts expands unabated. "The bear is like a walking bank account for poachers," says Grosz; almost all its parts are salable in Asia. South Korean folklore recommends bear gallbladder for ills ranging from convulsions to tooth decay. As a result, a bear gallbladder fetches...
...soaring soul of America this week of high summer among the corn fields and pastures around Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The gentle prairie breezes are being ruffled by the snarls of thousands of tiny airplanes, birthed in basements and garages, built from plans or kits, antiques rescued from rust and decay by men and women who, like Orville and Wilbur Wright, still want to fly free like birds. Now and then at this mecca of private aviation, the towering cumulus clouds are sundered by warbirds like the gull-winged Corsair, the kind the Jolly Rogers squadron flew in the Pacific, lovingly restored...
While the Joe Restic regime should never be confused with tooth decay, its time had clearly passed. Restic's multiflex--once bold, exciting and dashing--had become outlandlish and revealing, like a bold tie a middle-aged man might wear to compensate fora retreating hairline. It was unreal, as were his staid sermons on the importance of education and values. Theyw were true, wonderful messages, but they didn't excite us: they were too Harvard...
That means you'd have to believe that any socially liberal ideas (feminism, gay rights, abortion rights) zip right down the slippery slope to cultural relativism and the moral decay of Our Great Nation. You'd have to present yourself as a martyr for defending free speech and then use your well-deserved speech to spout only intolerance. You'd have to dismiss moderate conservatives as sissies, or as closet liberals. You'd have to vehemently deny that you were actually on the fringe...