Word: destroyed
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...parents will discourage children from going on welfare. The real bridge to the 21st century is jobs that teach welfare recipients the skills they need to move up the ladder to self-sufficiency. So long as the bridge isn't roadblocked by government wage and tax policies that destroy entry-level jobs, this success will be passed on to future generations. THOMAS K. DILWORTH, Research Director Employment Policies Institute Washington...
...more attention? Well, it seems Sudan is what the aid professionals euphemistically call a "complex emergency." In their terminology, a simple emergency is one that is either man-made or the result of natural disasters. A complex emergency is a catastrophe caused by man and nature working together to destroy. That definition fits Sudan's crisis to doleful perfection...
...Spielberg and screenwriter Robert Rodat have been introducing us to members of a small Ranger unit commanded by Tom Hanks' Captain Miller, in effect bonding us with them as they pass through this inner circle of hell, feeling their fear, enduring their losses, sharing their weary triumph when they destroy the enemy pillbox that commands their sector. They--we--have done enough. Time now to rest, regroup...
...have hyperthyroidism, drugs can slow down the thyroid or, if need be, radioactive iodine can destroy it completely--at which point you will have to take thyroxine...
...their adoring public. "My favorite color is green," says Dipsy, played by John Simmit, rolling his eyes. "That's all I'm allowed to say." And if the Teletubby creators had their way, we might not even know that much. Why the secrecy? "We don't want to destroy the magic," people involved with the show explain again and again, obviously infected by that numbing, Teletubby-like repetition that mesmerizes children. Or, as the show's co-creator Anne Wood says, "We want to preserve the whole reality of the Teletubbies...