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...even concerned teachers commonly use research papers more as a way to simply increase the volume of students' reading, desirable though that is, rather than as an experience designed essentially to deepen students' thought, thus further divorcing reading from the forming of ideas...
...told late at night that the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano had gone down, his first question was about the loss of life. The casualties profoundly affected Reagan and in his view altered the chemistry of the crisis. He became increasingly distressed as the numbers mounted, since these deaths deepen distrust and hatred...
...bacilli are present, and the symptoms are pale, patchy spots on the face, hands and feet. In the more contagious, lepromatous form, many microorganisms are present in the skin and in nasal secretions; patches and lumps can occur all over the body, and the facial lines tend to deepen. Leprosy does not usually cause gross mutilations. But it can cause a numbness of the hands and feet that leads to accidental burning or mutilation of extremities. This is a source of the myth that leprosy causes parts of the body to drop...
...substitute for Reagan's tax cuts. "I came away unbowed but a little bloody. I can't move anything in the Congress." Democrats find themselves in an ambiguous political position. Most believe that Reagan's budget makes no economic sense and will severely prolong or even deepen the recession. Lacking the clout to revamp it totally, they are reluctant to block key parts of it, since they might then have to share the political blame for any economic chaos that occurs...
Reagan's move seemed only to deepen a vigorous debate over U.S. support for the Duarte government. More than 30,000 civilians have been killed in the fighting in El Salvador. While many victims are the unavoidable casualties of battle, many others are killed in cold blood-mostly by freelance right-wing death squads and government security forces, but also by leftist guerrillas...