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Some have said that Mayne’s work is widely cited by his contemporaries and critics for its originality and its deviation from the status quo...
...rulemaking process that people lose critical cognitive and motor skills as they age. The powerful Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) has also argued to keep the rule in order, some say, to keep its younger members happy. The FAA and Congress have been unwilling to question the status quo...
...least that’s what the meat, egg, and dairy industries want us to believe. Once we have the capacity to examine and question the status quo, we owe it to ourselves—and the animals we’re eating—to uncover the truth behind modern-day industrial agriculture and what affects our purchasing decisions have. The unfortunate reality we must face is that animals raised for food in factory farms suffer immensely for almost the entirety of their lives...
...path of political reform and democratization in the Middle East, and even its final result, is still quite uncertain. One thing, though, is clear: a portion of the Arab street that for so long has been silent has been awakened. The shameful status quo that for so long has smothered the Arab world and the aspirations of its people is now being challenged in a way few imagined possible. It is premature to declare any sort of “victory,” and the Bush administration has rightfully been wary of premature optimism. Middle Eastern regimes have...
...They never suggested that we challenge these wobbly despots? In fact, they bitterly denounced the Bush doctrine for presuming to destabilize the region in pursuit of some democratic chimera? They opposed the Bush doctrine precisely because they preferred stability. They warned us darkly that the alternative to the status quo was the seething Arab street--an unruly mob, anarchic, anti-American, pan-Arabist or perhaps Islamist, ignorant of all liberal traditions and ready to rise up against America should it disturb the perfect order of things by "imposing democracy...