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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public criticism that Kissinger resisted because he felt it would not produce the desired result-and could damage detente as well. Last week the Soviets arrested a prominent dissident and expelled an American correspondent. Would the State Department maintain a sort of running commentary on such incidents as they occurred? Vance tried to blunt the issue by declaring that U.S. criticism of foreign governments should be neither "polemical" nor "strident," but would occur "from time to time when we see a threat to human rights...
...young radicals disillusioned Sand, causing her to retreat to her old country home and withdraw from politics to write peacefully until her death in 1876. Horrified by the violence, she opposed the revolutionary uprisings and the rule of the 1871 Commune. But she retained the belief that socialism would occur gradually at a point distantly in the future, writing, "I am, as always socially red...but one must never impose one's convictions by force...
...finale of the night will occur after the hockey game is over. The train ride back to Harvard square will show the mettle of the fans from the two schools. Loud and vicious insults are a must for this occasion, especially if Harvard wins. In that case, you can taunt the Terrier fans because their team lost and impugn their intelligence...
...known laboratory infections (about 6000 recorded in the history of microbiology) have been largely respiratory infections, spread by droplets (mostly before safety cabinets were introduced in the 1940s). Enteric infections, however, occur through swallowing of contaminated food or other material. Even the most virulent enteric pathogens are relatively safe to handle in the laboratory with simple precautions, such as not putting food or a cigarette on the laboratory bench...
...driveways, we should not start worrying about an Ice Age." Among scientists who fear that significant worldwide climatic changes have already begun, there are those who believe that another Ice Age is not far ahead-as well as others who predict that a potentially devastating warming trend may occur...