Word: destroy
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...snappy commentary on politics and culture (excerpts of which also appear in TIME), Netscape 1.0 viewers were treated to a page of gibberish followed by a shutdown. Was the snafu a sign of incompetence, or was it, as conspiracy buffs asked, a glimpse of a Microsoft plan to destroy Netscape...
...fact, as I have stated in my published report about this inhumane conspiracy, whose aim was to destroy me in the academic world and beyond, I consider Alavi and his co-plotter no more than errant characters who did dirty work for others, principally the former director of CMES, Roy Mottahedeh. Mottahedeh and I have had a public dispute ever since he sabotaged my efforts some time ago to gain the freedom of Salman Rushdie when I was a consultant for CBS' "Sixty Minutes...
...knew what we needed: "All of us are grateful that we in the United States can still turn our thoughts and our attention to those institutions of our country which symbolize peace--institutions whose purpose is to save life and not to destroy...
This may seem a trivial objection on my part compared, say, with objections that are based on the belief that recognizing gay marriage would destroy civilization as we know it, but we all deal with these issues on our own level...
...thus a lot more useful than the already common practice of freezing sperm itself; sperm lasts only so long, but a sperm factory can, in theory, go on forever. That could be enormously comforting to men about to undergo, say, radiation treatment or chemotherapy, which can destroy stem cells and render patients permanently infertile. These men could sidestep the problem by having their stem cells removed, frozen and reimplanted after treatment...