Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tugs at his beard rather often. "Sometimes I feel that I keep the show in existence only by concentrating as hard as I can, and if I ever stop thinking about it, even for a moment, the whole thing might simply disappear," he says. And you look at his beard and start to wonder how it survives all over again...
...Politics seminar on hallucinogenic drugs. Weil explained that the present approach to drugs is one that "tries to make the problem go away" rather than deal with it rationally. He criticized the current government reasoning that "if laws are harsh enough and borders tough enough, then drug use will disappear...
...they disappear into houses, apartments...
...other known cases. But unless the radioactive element is removed, they will go right on "ticking" as long as they live-and probably for some time thereafter. Americium has a half-life of 458 years; it takes nearly half a millennium for 50% of the isotope to disappear...
...course, we can't really make them disappear, can we? Maybe we can cut their birth rate? Or how about taking the children from their parents before the damage is done? Why not permit lower-class parents to sell their infants to "qualified bidders, both private and public"? Alas, though, that would just encourage some people to bring more children into the world. Well, he ponders, we could always make sterilization of the "vendor" (how much better a word that is than mother or father) a condition of sale. But no, it is wrong to represent human beings as commodities...