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...steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception. Thousands of millions of Muslims are angry. The Americans should expect reactions from the Muslim world that are proportionate to the injustice they inflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Osama bin Laden: Conversation With Terror | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...century we'll be able to alter our DNA radically, encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-forms. When Dr. Frankenstein made his monster, he wrestled with the moral issue of whether he should allow it to reproduce: "Had I the right, for my own benefit, to inflict the curse upon everlasting generations?" Will such questions require us to develop new moral philosophies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biotech Century | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...world where 1.3 billion human beings endure the inhumanity of absolute poverty? Where severe environmental degradation persists? Where war has claimed countless lives on every continent? Where cultural disintegration and pervasive personal meaninglessness become "inevitable" by-products of materialism's circular pointlessness? Must humanity dream up new crises to inflict upon itself...

Author: By Jonathan T. Jacoby, | Title: Anti-Social Behavior | 11/4/1998 | See Source »

...women in her book, and she points out that most self-mutilators are women, use everything from irons to scissors to inflict pain upon themselves. Many have highly ritualized cuttings, in which they set out the instruments of their own torture as carefully as a surgeon setting out her tools. The images in the book are unnervingly graphic, and Strong spares the reader as little as the victims spare themselves. In one chilling episode, a woman "sliced one [arm] open from wrist to elbow down to the muscle and burned herself so badly she required a skin graft...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cutting the Pain Away | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...already clear that Republicans will not accept any punishment that does not inflict some pain and suffering: Clinton would have to apologize once more, probably in the Well of the House or somewhere on Congress's turf; admit that he lied under oath, caused the nation, the government and the polity great damage; pledge to fix it with specific bipartisan proposals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There A Way Out? | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

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