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...comes in the context not only of the U.S. looking askance at the safe zone, but also of strong hints that not everyone in the U.S. security establishment is persuaded by the current policy - the U.S. supports anti-narcotics efforts by the Colombian government, but not counterinsurgency efforts per se. And the difficulty, of course, is that the line between the two is often blurry when the guerrillas are financing themselves off "taxing" the drug trade in exchange for providing protection...
Next come the sweat glands, which release enormous quantities of water through the skin. It's not the sweating per se that cools the body but the evaporation that draws heat from the skin and lowers its temperature...
...There were 46 direct personal questions. Number 18 inquired if you had been treated for any serious mental illness within the last three years. This isn't a disqualification per se. In fact it may help. I suspect that the producers just want to ensure a full range of mental disturbance among the finalists rather than have say, two competitors with the identical strain of delusional schizophrenia...
...assigns that purpose moral weight (outside of the naturalistic fallacy that whatever is, is good) is difficult to discern. Even harder is how to justify in this context the rhythm method or sex with an infertile spouse; to do so, conservatives have fallen back on ennobling heterosexuality per se, calling it a "unique two-in-one flesh communion" or invoking, as did Salient publisher Bronwen C. McShea '02, the union of Christ and His Church. Looking for good metaphors is a silly way to go about moral reasoning, and with legions of gender theorists and lit-crit folks...
...harmony with going around saying "n-----." So the speaker might backpedal, with an unction of benevolence: "Uh, 'cose, you know, I don't mean nuthin' by that. (Squinting now into the middle distance, with a philosophical air; if outdoors, he might even spit speculatively.) "The way I figure, they'se white n------ as well as black...