Word: selfe
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Obama, who is changing the conventional wisdom, who is saying that we have to have a security system that does not depend on nuclear weapons. President [Dmitri] Medvedev from Russia. Gordon Brown. These people have finally come to realize that the status quo is a recipe for self-destruction...
...municipalities across the country to statutorily reckon with allowing livestock within city limits. But legal or not, urban animal husbandry is gaining cachet. That's not only because of the desire to eat local and organic but also because the shaky economy has more people wanting to be more self-sufficient. Says Seattle Tilth garden educator Carey Thornton: "Food you raise yourself just tastes better...
...memoir My Life in France (published after Child's death in 2004 and written with Alex Prud'homme). The Child who is only imagined in Powell's book as a sort of kitchen goddess-dictator is realized here as a real person, living her own parallel narrative arc of self-discovery...
...hypocrisy is part of diplomacy. Refusing to engage with vicious nutcases like Kim can feel virtuous, but tarring our enemies as irredeemable warmongers can be self-fulfilling. We can't wish North Korea off the map, and it's a good sign that Kim was rational enough to modify his behavior to get what he wanted; it's an even better sign that he wanted to talk to us. This week, at least, the saber rattlers who claim there's never anything to gain from talking to rogue states should tell that to the families of Euna Lee and Laura...
...sounded more like an insurance company than a big new government program. "We defined it fairly clearly in terms of what we thought would work best," he said. "It shouldn't be something that's simply a taxpayer-subsidized system that wasn't accountable, but rather had to be self-sustaining through premiums and that had to compete with private insurers." Under this definition, a cooperative arrangement, of the type being talked about by the Senate Finance Committee, might fit the bill by providing an alternative to purely private insurance. When I asked whether this sort of arrangement, modeled...