Word: distinctives
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...life begins at conception, by twenty weeks, the organism in question is a “child.” A living, breathing child, which is about a foot long in length, weighs about a pound, and has arms, legs, fingers, and toes. He or she has distinct facial features, with wrinkly reddish skin, eyes, lips, and a nose. Many babies delivered at this point and after are able to survive indefinitely outside the body of the mother. There is even scientific evidence that between weeks 20 and 30, the unborn child is even more sensitive to pain than...
...YOUR VIEW CHANGED? Well, obviously I'm guided by the fact that clear evidence has not been found of the existence of weapons, as distinct from the clear existence of an intention to build a capacity. What's the true explanation? I think the jury's still out on that. I don't think you've heard the last thing on this issue...
...Monologues” was first performed off-Broadway in 1996 and chronicles the thematically similar, but distinct, stories of the more than 200 women who Ensler interviewed. Since its inception, the play has become a cultural phenomenon, tied to raising awareness of violence against women. Proceeds from this production went to V-Day 2006 Spotlight Global Campaign on Comfort Women, the Network/La Red, the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violent for victims of Hurricane Katrina, and El Amel Centers in Sudan...
...Almost 80% of Iraqis are Arab, while some 15-20% are Kurds - a distinct ethnic group with its own language, history and culture, concentrated in northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, northern Iran and southern Georgia. Kurds have struggled for their rights as a cultural minority in all of those societies, often suffering vicious repression, but have enjoyed de facto independence in northern Iraq under U.S. protection since the 1991 Gulf War. Although they participate in Iraqi national politics and one of their key leaders, Jalal Talabani, is currently Iraq's president, the vast majority of Iraqi Kurds have signaled...
...Conservative, has positioned himself as Blair's true heir, so Christian Democrat Angela Merkel comfortably heads a German government in which some of the most important ministries are held by Social Democrats. Europe is living through the end of ideology - that same, well, sameness of beliefs among nominally distinct political groupings that Daniel Bell identified in the U.S. almost 50 years ago. Indeed, it is arguable that genuine ideological cleavages on such matters as civil liberties and the powers of the executive are sharper in U.S. politics now than they are in Europe - the first time that has been true...