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...incorporated some of Maxim's off-color humor and sometimes disgusting articles like "Help! They Mangled My penis"--a graphically illustrated account of a man's horribly botched attempt at penile enlargement. I'd like to see a similar article entitled, "Revenge of the Silicon Breasts" to deter Pamela Lee Anderson wannabes. The fact is all of these magazines are just junk food for the brain. If they don't make you feel insecure about your height/weight/intellect, they waste your time with their inanity. Guys, welcome to our world. May you loath it as much as the next woman...
This does not deter memeticists, who, for technical reasons of their own, regard such objections as profoundly misguided. Indeed, Blackmore, taking the theory to its logical conclusion, suggests memes account not only for the evolution of culture but also for consciousness itself. The mind, in Blackmore's scheme of things, is little more than a nest of memes...
...wonder weapons of air power looked futile against primitive "ethnic cleansers" with guns. The long-threatened bombing campaign failed to deter the rape of Kosovo and even appeared to be speeding it. Publicly, NATO insisted that the blame for the refugee flight lay solely with Milosevic, not Western bombs. But privately, officials offered a line that made more sense alongside the awful images. Military planners lamented that bad weather, clever Serb tactics, White House worries about collateral damage--and a reluctance to risk pilots' lives--kept them from hitting at Milosevic as hard as they wished. And diplomats complained that...
...given the union's reluctance to endorsegeographical assigning, officers will be rotatedon a yet-to-be-deter-mined basis, Williams says...
HUPD will be using a new initiative called Security Tracking of Office Property (STOP) to deter thieves from stealing laptops...