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...donated instruments that will enable Mexico to keep a closer watch on Popocatepetl near Mexico City. And shortly after Pinatubo first showed signs of activity in April, the U.S. Geological Survey sent to the Philippines a team of scientists equipped with seismometers, tiltmeters (to measure tiny shifts in the slope of the mountain) and laptop computers to collect and analyze data. Several of the instruments, however, were obliterated by last week's eruptions, hampering efforts to figure out the volcano's next gambit...
...baby, against such long odds, to save the older daughter -- seemed to many to be a miracle. To others it was profoundly, if sometimes obscurely, troubling. It called up brutal images -- baby farming, cannibalizing for spare parts. Many saw in the story the near edge of a dangerous slippery slope at the bottom of which they glimpsed an abyss, and maybe the shadow of Dr. Mengele at work...
...First Amendment is something l won't walk away from, because it's a slippery slope," said City Councillor Edward...
...even Whitesnake should be kept away from the public. How far down the slippery slope of paternalism will MTV travel? Since when does MTV claim to be the protector of public morality? After all, Allan Bloom has long maintained that MTV concists of "hymns to onanism and the killing of parents...
...instructor will spend time familiarizing you with the feeling of your equipment. You'll walk around on a flat surface with your skis on, just to understand that feeling. You'll then start off on an easy slope, which should build your confidence as you work up to higher levels. After your lesson, you'll want to work on reinforcing what you've just learned. Don't get cocky and take "the wall." You will only be developing "survival" techniques to compensate for things you haven't learned yet. This will lead to bad habits, which are hard to break...