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...that we should let the squirrels go (at our immediate scale) because all species eventually die (at geological scales) makes about as much sense as arguing that we shouldn't treat an easily curable childhood infection because all humans are ultimately and inevitably mortal," Gould writes...
...rhetoric and muscle flexing. Months later, when the Berlin Wall fell and communism collapsed throughout Europe, we Americans did not dance in the streets. What we did, according to the networks, was change the channel to avoid the news. Nonviolent revolutions do not uplift us, and the loss of mortal enemies only seems to leave us empty and bereft...
...shift in the mood seems to have begun several weeks ago, when Baghdad announced a treaty agreement with Iran and gave back to its mortal enemy the few spoils of its war in hopes that Tehran would join the struggle against the U.S. "The people do not understand how Saddam could do that," says a Baghdad shopkeeper...
...hard. Left to its own instincts, Japan's sole instrument of security policy would be its checkbook. That isn't good enough in a world menaced by the likes of Saddam Hussein. The burden to be shared in the gulf is not just financial cost; it is also mortal risk. If U.S., Saudi, Egyptian, British and other soldiers die in the desert, Japan's billions will have bought more resentment than gratitude from its partners...
...NEWFOUND appreciation of Southernness began to arise around the time I defected to Cambridge. In place of Southern courtesy (a cliche grounded firmly in reality), I found scowling store clerks, irate motorists and pedestrians engaging in mortal defiance on city streets. I realize now that a part of me really does thrive "down home...