Word: proof
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SADDAM HUSSEIN'S talent for survival is surpassed only by his insouciance in the face of global condemnation. The Iraqi dictator has set up an arms- manufacturing and -acquisition operation in Tunisia, according to Africa Confidential, a respected newsletter published in Britain. State Department officials say they have proof that Saddam is using the North African republic as a clearinghouse for black-market weapons purchases to confound the United Nations team monitoring Iraq's chemical- and nuclear-arms program...
Miracles take the form of lives. Abraham Lincoln was a miracle. Divinity poured almost spontaneously out of Mozart. Surely when it is time for the Catholic Church to canonize Mother Teresa, it will seem redundant for a panel of theologians in Rome to ask for proof of miracles she performed. She herself is the miracle...
Since the death of Irving Berlin, McCartney is probably the world's most famous musical illiterate. He freely admits that his repeated attempts to learn to read music have failed, and this is often seized on as proof that he is somehow not a "real" musician. Yet McCartney's reason -- "The marks on the page failed to match up to what I was hearing, so I eventually made up the music and someone else wrote it down" -- is perfectly valid...
...curse, have been changed into candlesticks (Jerry Orbach), teapots (Angela Lansbury), clocks (David Ogden Stiers) and armoires (Jo Anne Worley). In the Be Our Guest number, watch closely for the swimming spoons, the dishes stacked in Eiffel Tower formation, the tankards in chorale. The voluptuousness of visual detail offers proof, if any more were needed after The Little Mermaid, that the Disney studio has relocated the pure magic of the Pinocchio-Dumbo years...
...breast reconstruction after surgery. Implants can deteriorate or spring leaks, and a manufacturing ban could leave these women no way to get a replacement. That was undoubtedly a major factor behind the panel's vote. The companies will still have to prove their products' safety, but without clear proof that the implants are unsafe, they will stay available to women who want them...