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...armed conflict require two forms of self-restraint by fighting forces: "discrimination" and "proportionality." Civilians and civilian places are to be kept distinct from military targets and protected from deliberate attack. Any action against military targets must be mounted so as to avoid unreasonable harm to civilians. But the fog of war and an adversary's misuse can make these principles harder to apply in practice, even for the most conscientious military forces. What is to be done when a sniper is shooting at your forces from an apartment-house rooftop? A civilian residence loses its immunity when misused...
...pedophilia. The questions make you blush; some of the answers make your skin crawl. But it seems that almost daily we see another grown man tell his story and weep, suddenly becoming the terrified kid he once was. All the revelations, all spilling out at once, have created a fog: Why are there so many people who want to molest children? How can we stop them? Are we overreacting...
Boylston’s second-floor café often escapes the less Yard-savvy café patron, but when horrid images of Spanish A creep back from alcohol-induced selective amnesia its location crystallizes in the cerebral fog. “Yo hablo bueno español, por que tu me dio una C?” The menu at Boylston is not as cultured as its patrons, who hail from such departments as literature and classics, though it does offer sushi for $5 and lasagna for the same. The red booth benches are absurdly comfortable and quick to conform...
...this peculiar fog of distress and uncertainty, everything feels contingent and on hold. Even for those whose jobs have not evaporated along with the tourists and foreign investment, planning ahead has become difficult. People we know talk of moving themselves, or at least their money, abroad. Even short-term planning like that for, say, a weekend trip, feels unusually heavy, as the number of places considered safe is substantially reduced...
MIND OVER MUSCLE About 30% of bypass patients suffer from what doctors call "pump head," a mental fog that physicians have long blamed on the heart-lung machine. The device pumps blood through the body when surgeons stop the heart in order to operate on it. Lately doctors have tried to avoid the problem by performing more bypasses on the heart while it is still beating. When researchers compared such "off pump" patients to those who have been on the heart-lung machine, however, they found no difference in memory, attention and motor skills one year after surgery...