Word: paradoxically
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...most vital processes. Cell division slows drastically. Even hair stops growing. Reduced fuel burning drives body temperature down; that, combined with the loss of insulating fat, can lead to death from hypothermia -- a threat on a cool Somalian evening. The shutting down of the intestines can lead to the paradox of death by diarrhea. Reduced production of white blood cells weakens the immune system, a kind of starvation-induced AIDS that turns diseases like measles into killers. Eventually the body begins burning muscle tissue wholesale: victims become too weak even to move, and the heart muscle begins to shrink...
More than a few people have been calling it a "paradox" that someone who was perceived as being so good for women as a group behaved so badly to them as individuals. Liberals often like to pretend that sexual harassment, like negative campaigning, is strictly conservative behavior. The truth is that the abuse of power is a temptation felt by many, regardless of their stance on affirmative action...
...society to emerge, where economic self-interest will prevail over the political passions of the past. He also seems to be sincere in his intention to devolve power from a small group of players in Moscow out into the vast reaches of the country. But the paradox Yeltsin must ultimately resolve is whether he is willing to use his own political power to the full in order to one day give power back to the people...
Ultimately, the fate of Russia's economy depends on the grit of reform leaders like Yeltsin and Gaidar and the animal spirits of entrepreneurs. In the paradox-riddled new Russia, Yeltsin's struggling reforms still look like & the biggest and best risks that the country can take...
They would have it wrong, of course. Measured in terms of the number of feminist organizations, journals, support groups and T shirts per capita, the U.S. is the world headquarters of the international feminist conspiracy. The paradox is that all this grass-roots energy and commitment has never translated into hard political power: in 1992, the Year of the Woman, 3% of the Senate and 6% of the House of Representatives is female, proportions that lag embarrassingly behind most European nations...