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...influenced Charles Darwin but disagreed with him about God. Stacey's own long contemplation of the collections made her "constantly think how fantastic Nature is, how symmetrical it is," she says. "It's quite beyond comprehension that everything could be so amazingly attuned." Even if Museum doesn't impel readers up the stairs to see the real specimens, it will incline them to look more closely at their living counterparts - and conclude, perhaps, that even the blowfly deserves its close...
...just a moral imperative; they also make economic sense, since, Collier estimates, a failed state costs its neighbors an average of $64 billion in military spending and lost trade, and can spread dysfunction far beyond its borders (for a prime example of the latter, see Afghanistan). These arguments impel Collier to a sobering conclusion: without radical international intervention, the world's poorest states are likely to remain trapped in a cycle of civil war and near-zero economic growth for decades...
...officials and Kurdish leaders know that unilateral moves by Kurds-to take Kirkuk on their own or to drop out of the Iraqi government-could not only provoke the ire of Iraq's Arab majority but also impel intervention by neighbors of Iraq such as Turkey, Iran and Syria that have restive Kurdish minorities of their own. Falah Mustafa Bakir, head of the Kurdish government's office of foreign relations, told me that declaring independence would be "political suicide." Just four years since the fall of Saddam, most Kurds may be willing to remain a part of Iraq...
...expansion. But the divorce was never intended to be total. Much of the Declaration itself was a plea for European sympathy and understanding. "Let Facts be submitted to a candid world," it argued. "A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." If the Americans were insisting on moving out of the house, they still wanted to be invited back for the holidays. But would they be, today? Wherever you look in Europe, there is a palpable estrangement from U.S. values and rhetoric, at least as expressed...
...loan cuts are also designed to close a legal loophole that benefitted the banks financing student loans, Day said. She added that she fears this lower profitability will impel banks to charge more for their student-loan services...