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This is a valid comparison. Much like Vietnam, Bosnia is a land foreign to American soldiers. It presents an unfamiliar terrain and adds to it a people with unfamiliar language and cultural traditions. The origin of the Bosnian conflict is largely alien to the average American GI, and the rationale behind American intervention is further hidden in ambiguity. In as much as Vietnam became the manifestation of George Kennan's containment doctrine, so has Bosnia become the symbol of America's ambivalent role as the global superpower. If not with Vietnam, then similar comparisons are provided by the military disaster...
...just as the peculiar behavior of light forced physicists to conclude that Newton's laws were incomplete, so the Cambrian explosion has caused experts to wonder if the twin Darwinian imperatives of genetic variation and natural selection provide an adequate framework for understanding evolution. "What Darwin described in the Origin of Species," observes Queen's University paleontologist Narbonne, "was the steady background kind of evolution. But there also seems to be a non-Darwinian kind of evolution that functions over extremely short time periods - and that's where all the action...
...suffering from severe fatigue and exhaustion of unknown origin," Tosteson's statement read. "When the results of these studies are available, a more certain prognosis will be possible. It is likely that the president will be on leave for a matter of weeks or longer...
...argue against laws because they constitute "impositions of morality" is a waste of time. Let us simply evaluate laws on their own merits, without engaging in a priori dismissal of proposals just because they are religious in origin There are many different moralities in our pluralistic society. What we must recognize is that some moralities are simply better than others...
...proponents of the center argue that they do not want to create a social area to promote the separation of minority students. Instead, they envision a conference room and exhibition hall, around which the College would place the offices for ethnic student groups, including those of European origin...