Word: porousness
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...cowardice and fecklessness, indifference, appeasement, denial, tribal intolerance and fanaticism, racial hatred. This is the way these things happen. The Holocaust is a densely compacted drama of warning that needs to be remembered repeatedly. In the world at the end of the 20th century, geography matters less; borders are porous, ideas go at the speed of light. A European apocalypse is not alien to America. The lessons are here -- played out to an extreme that has become the world standard of evil, a sort of baseline...
...rules seemed porous and confusing. Marines understood they were authorized to seize any weapons in their zone of security. Four soldiers, drawn by gunfire to a gutted six-story building down the block from the U.S. embassy, discovered a large arms cache that included boxes of ammunition, heavy machine guns and a howitzer. They prepared to confiscate it when a Somali man stepped forward to argue that the building belonged to an Aidid ally. He demanded to speak to someone higher up. When Corporal Robert Parrish reached his platoon commander by radio, he was instructed, "Get in your vehicles...
...pressure" a condom can take, he can tell customers the differences between various condoms, which lubrications are to be used with which condoms, and which ones are dependable for pregnancy prevention but not for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Natural lambskin condoms, for example, are too porous to be reliable protection against STDs...
Gates says in Chapter 2 that the goal must be "to prepare our students for their roles as citizens of a world culture." The ever-defended "West" of Bennett and Bloom is properly conceived as part of a "larger whole" without a gelatinized, fixed canon but with a "porous, dynamic, and interactive" culture...
...Growers have been dumping tons of dried chicken excrement, known as litter, on croplands in the northwestern part of the & state. "We're well past the land's capacity to accept the waste," says Robert Leflar, a Sierra Club official; he and others fear the litter will seep through porous limestone and contaminate streams and groundwater. Clinton in 1990 appointed an animal-waste task force to look into the problem (a favorite tactic: his first move in almost any crisis is to appoint a task force or study commission), but it has yet to recommend any action...