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...alone would cost $3.7 billion. Is that a reasonable investment for preventing perhaps a score of deaths? Is $711 million per case of cancer too much to pay for the elimination of pentachlorophenol, a fungicide used in the lumber industry, or $80 billion per case too much to get rid of alachlor, an agricultural chemical...
...your father is a murderer, are you? This is the odd question posed in "Flesh and Bone," an disturbing and perplexing movie about one man's unusual struggle to rid himself of his father's blood...
...dignity, since it reminds us of what is undignified to do even though the act may be profitable, useful or pleasurable. Its strength and limitation consist in the fact that one cannot give an adequate account of it; shame is variable and seems arbitrary. But because reason cannot get rid of it, reason has to direct it; and here is where natural law or natural right comes...
London, which has ruled Ulster directly since 1974, would be delighted to be rid of the security problem caused by I.R.A. terrorism as well as the costs of peacekeeping and economic support in Northern Ireland, now running at an estimated $4.5 billion a year. But the political risks of cutting loose a province that has shown consistent majorities in favor of union with Britain remain too high, especially for Prime Minister John Major, who now needs the votes of the nine Protestant Unionists in the House of Commons as a cushion to defend his thin majority. And if London cannot...
...students, who yelled "Go Tigers!" and "Go Princeton" as they ran, seemed to be getting rid of exuberance--or inebriation--left over from Head of the Charles weekend...