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After 50 years of cradle-to-grave welfare statism, little Uruguay is tottering on the brink of bankruptcy. The country is rich in wheat and beef but hardly rich enough to afford such goodies as 100% pensions at age 55, a 30-hour work week, and 44 days of paid vacation each year for many workers. And so in the past five years the peso has skidded from 9? to 1.6? on the free market (the official rate has been abandoned altogether). Thus far this year, inflation has soared 45% while the foreign debt has grown to a staggering...
...exorcise death with magic. Or with reason. "When I am, death is not," said Epicurus. "When death is, I am not. Therefore we can never have anything to do with death." The vanquishing of death was Christianity's great enterprise. "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" cried the apostle Paul...
...involve the old physical concept of heaven and hell. It does involve the survival of some essence of self, and an encounter with God. "Life after death," said Theologian Karl Earth, should not be regarded like a butterfly-he might have said a balloon-that "flutters away above the grave and is preserved somewhere. Resurrection means not the continuation of life, but life's completion. The Christian hope is the conquest of death, not a flight into the Beyond...
...Should Vanish." Ag 246 has also been used on victims of constant pain who previously got complete relief only with unconsciousness. A cancer patient, with pain so grave that a lobotomy had been contemplated, got so much relief from the drug that he was able to read and eat normally...
...When he disappears, the people assume that he has killed the manticore. When they march to the poet's castle to punish him, they find him on his death bed surrounded by the three animals--his youth, his middle age, and his old age, which leads him to his grave...