Word: noxiousness
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...baby, Israeli soldiers. Using Muslim grievances to justify slaughtering a Jewish civilian should be insulting to all those whom the terrorists want to co-opt. But it evidently is not, given the terrorists? continuing ability to win recruits. We may already know that intellectually. But the video makes this noxious logic searingly real. I sweated through every moment of watching the damned thing. I paused it every few seconds and paced, checked my e-mail, went downstairs to kiss my baby son - anything to avoid it. I felt sick and angry - at the killers, the Phoenix, myself...
...Bush’s much-touted “Clean Skies” initiative confirms the suspicions one should rightly have about the environmental and energy policies of the Bush administration. For instance, many are unaware that the plan—which proudly boasts of a cap to noxious sulfur dioxide emissions—actually rolls back previous restrictions on coal-fired power plants. Moreover, the supposed cap is estimated by environmental groups to be too high to make any meaningful difference and acts instead as a smoke screen to protect heavy polluters. And if this meaningless cap were...
America needs an example. As our government and our people begin to realize just how noxious Islamic dictatorships are both to their own people and to American values, it is becoming increasingly clear that America cannot support such governments over the long term. Unfortunately, there are at present only two general types of government in the Arab world, both despotic...
Although the exhibit currently resides in an art museum, daguerreotypy is as indebted to science as it is founded on aesthetics. The technique required a delicate mix of noxious chemicals, absolute stillness on behalf of the subject and precise timing from the operator. Error yielded cloudy phantom shadows, but the hands of a master consistently produced images with clarity paralleling—and more frequently exceeding—that of modern single-reflex lens photography...
...course, the fact that America's two most-wanted men in Afghanistan have thus far eluded capture does little to change the political and military facts of what has transpired there: U.S. military power has smashed a noxious regime that had defiantly harbored the headquarters and engine room of the largest transnational terror corporation in history. Al Qaeda has suffered significant losses and, more importantly, has lost the sanctuary that allowed it to reproduce and expand its terror networks. The battle to uproot and eliminate those networks may yet take years, but it will be waged primarily by the world...