Word: habitability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dalkon Shield (which had a tendency to cause devastating infections), DES (which could cause cancer in the user's offspring) or the high-estrogen birth-control pill (which was also rushed to market after hasty and dubious testing). A cynic might point to the medical profession's long habit of exploiting the female body for profit -- from the 19th century custom of removing the ovaries as a cure for "hysteria" to our more recent traditions of unnecessary hysterectomies and caesareans. A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation...
...significant support from the generals or civilian power brokers. The big surprise was that it took place in Venezuela, where multiparty democracy has been the rule for more than 30 years. The last serious coup attempt was in 1962, and most observers thought the country had overcome the old habit of military intervention...
DRINK UNTIL you see three Macintosh screens. Smoke enough crack to make Marion Barry's drug habit look like a day at the beach. Have sex, lots of sex, in many different places, in many different positions--and preferably with many different people of many different genders and species. Steal. Covet. Lust. commit adultery. dishonor your father and mother (the best method is to tell them about all the guilt they made you feel as a child). And, if necessary, kill-roommates, advisors, cheerful juniors, people who finished their theses a month early are all legitimate targets. Sin is everything...
They'd love to kick the habit...
...genius who invented the pyramid as a monumental form in the 3rd millennium B.C., was black, and so were Euclid and Cleopatra in Alexandria 28 dynasties later. Blacks in Egypt invented hieroglyphics, and monumental stone sculpture, and the pillared temple, and the cult of the Pharaonic sun king. The habit of European and American historians of treating the ancient Egyptians as other than black is a racist plot to conceal the achievements of black Africa...