Word: secondhands
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...treaty is, of course, secondhand goods. Some three years ago, with much fanfare, the European Union Constitutional Treaty was launched, only to bite the dust when the French and Dutch rejected it in national referendums. This is its second coming. Although the form is different, experts are divided only as to whether 95% of the content is the same, or merely 90%. Since all the most important constitutional innovations of the earlier treaty have been carried forward to the present one, that is neither here nor there...
...also of deep concern that humanitarian projects cannot be easily monitored because of a lack of security. For the handful of foreign NGOs currently in Baghdad the situation is frustrating, they say, because of the lack of direct contact with their Iraqi beneficiaries. "You are dependent on secondhand information - you could be in Amman or Washington or Paris," says Guy Siri, who says he can count the number of international aid agencies in Baghdad on one hand...
...page WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008, bound like a high school yearbook and bundled with a "cigarette pack" of colored markers, called on governments to adhere to six tobacco control policies it calls MPOWER: monitor tobacco use; protect people from secondhand smoke; offer help to people who want to quit; warn about the risks of smoking; enforce bans on cigarette advertising; and raise tobacco taxes. The report also breaks down tobacco consumption and prevention efforts country by country. To date, it is the most comprehensive study of its kind at a global level, said WHO Director-General...
...read them all. But unless you had a bite (with coffee) you would never know how good it is. You wouldn't know it like I do. I've never been on ketamine, so I know it only as well as a reader would know my wife's cake - secondhand. I wondered how could I warn Sasha about this drug. Without firsthand experience, could I still reason effectively with him about it? I wondered if there was anyone who could, who could say something like "Look here, son, when I was in fourth grade, reading Crime and Punishment and doing...
...staring at China. It is not only awaiting the extravaganza of the coming Olympic flame, but also scrutinizing every minute detail of China’s governmental and environmental wrongs. Instead of progress and achievement, the world sees a polluted country unable to stop choking on its own secondhand smoke. Such negative publicity may serve to bring awareness to China’s gilded image in the wake of Beijing 2008, but it does not do justice to China and its efforts at change...