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NATO and Serbia are fighting very different wars. While NATO was attempting to grind down Belgrade's air defenses, Milosevic was fighting the only war he really cares about. He refused to fire spasms of SAMs into the swarming skies over Yugoslavia. That kept NATO's low-and-slow tank- and troop-killing warplanes away and confined vaunted alliance firepower to Everest-high altitudes. In Belgrade government officials chortled that the damage to their air-defense systems was "minimal" despite a NATO expenditure of "230 grams of high explosives per head" of every Yugoslav. Meanwhile, Yugoslavia's well-armed infantry...
...work force or college. By the mid-'90s, students were testing some 70% below the national average in reading and math, and nearly 6% were chronically truant. And kids could always plan for a few extra days of summer vacation as teacher strife over pay would invariably grind into a strike...
Duehay says the daily grind of policy negotiations and legislative wrangling have finally caught up with...
...wool, how could they be expected to exploit workers? Settling temporarily in northern Florida, Flagler and Co. moved farther south, eventually stumbling upon the small Barrier Island of Palm Beach. One hundred years later the island of Palm Beach is still where the mega-rich go to escape the grind of winter life in East Egg. Easily bored, they have gone out of their way to cram as much bacchanalian debauchery into one island as possible...
...else--like dignity and free will? The popularity of evolutionary theories featuring man-the-hunter from Mars and his Venusian sidekick, woman, has led many feminist scholars to assert that biology is a sexist "ideology," not a science, and Darwin just another dead white male with an ax to grind. In the mid-'80s, the influential French feminist theorist Christine Delphy advised thinking women to "ignore" biology, and in this country there were mutterings that research into sex differences should be de-funded forthwith, since no good could come of it. Recall those "scientific" theories of the innate inferiority...