Word: mentions
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Silverstein and Honig argue that using the name "Arab East Jersualem" inaccurately describes the eastern part of Jerusalem because there is currently a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem. However, they neglect to mention that this majority was only achieved through a systematic pumping in of Jewish settlers and concurrent expulsion of native Palestinians by means of physical and legal violence. To uphold the policy of keeping Palestinians off of their land, denoted by such incidents as the notorious 1947 Deir Yassin massacre in a village in the Jerusalem district, Israeli law refuses building permits to native Palestinians in Jerusalem, legally...
...sounds very dated, an effect which is amplified by Vonnegut's deep and abiding suspicion of technology and his resulting unwillingness to give the so-called "Information Age" any serious consideration ("You're being cheated out of being alive!" he warned computer users). Even Vietnam receives only a passing mention...
...writing this letter?" she writes. "Because I am desperate...The mention of Harvard might make you think, okay, she's one of those successful people who've made it in life. Unfortunately, I don't feel one tiny bit of the success...
...have long demanded equal medical care without having to compromise their religious beliefs, have made up some 90% of those who seek the bloodless techniques. But increasing numbers of other patients today refuse transfusions out of fear of blood-borne diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis, not to mention unidentified viruses...
...until I mention that the Red Cross screens all blood before use in medical treatment that a few of my peers concede that perhaps the regulation is ridiculous. Some still feel that the screening process is not foolproof. The reality is that there is an eight week window period between transmission and detection and that the screening process is just as likely to miss a straight donor who is infected as it is to miss a gay donor who has contracted...