Word: destroyed
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...like to destroy three myths about education and learning that Harvard puts into the minds of its students. If you know that these supposed truths are merely myths, you may still have a fighting chance when the liberals lift you up and put you on the conveyor belt that leads into their factory. You may still emerge from Harvard with your conscience intact...
...tempting to think of the tiny pathogens that produce such diseases as malaria, dysentery, TB, cholera, staph and strep as malevolent little beasts, out to destroy higher forms of life. In fact, all they're trying to do is survive and reproduce, just as we are. Human suffering and death are merely unfortunate by-products...
...even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box," she cried, noting quite shrewdly that "whoever is trying to destroy me is inevitably damaging the institution of the monarchy." Diana is in an increasingly vulnerable position. Since her separation from Charles in December 1992, she has searched for a private life. The media frenzy has continued unabated, however, and last December she announced her semiretirement from public activities. None of it has made much difference. She is still the most photographed woman in the world...
...There's this sort of unrelenting hero worship,where we create a hero, make him into a celebrityand destroy them, because they can never live upto that image," Bates said...
...Macworld Expo in Boston, the wheelchair-bound author of "A Brief History of Time" mused that computer viruses meet all the definitions of life, except for the fact that they have no metabolism. Instead, Hawking said, they're parasites that feed off the metabolisms of the host computers they destroy: "I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image...