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...Earth, radiation and heat levels are so high, life-friendly planets so scarce and the cosmic bombardments--like the one that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago--so severe that the only life-forms that might make it would be bacteria-like critters living deep in the soil. The odds against technologically advanced societies, they argue, are astronomical...
...going to eat meat, there's no real reason the internal organs, properly cooked, should be any less clean than regular meat. After all, at least those parts of the animal don't touch the soil or grass. For that matter, a piece of cabbage, seeing as it's pulled off the soil, is pretty disgusting. Organ meats cooked well achieve a level of intensity no chicken-breast dish can ever hope to match. It's odd that organ meats tend to fall either in the lowest end or the highest end of the culinary caste system...
...there was almost nothing simple about the trip as it played out, because the Pope is not just a religious pilgrim. He is one of the world's great moral authorities, whose support or very presence (or even the brush of his lips on a proffered pot of soil as he visits a new land) can lend validity to states, policies and causes. Moreover, he heads an entity with its own foreign policy goals: from a desire to protect the religious sites and fast-vanishing Christians of the Holy Land, to long-held support of a Palestinian homeland...
This form of nationalism is strange indeed. The significance of the integrity of Chinese soil seems to have overtaken the importance of the inhabitants of this patch of earth. If the communists proceed along a course perilously close to war, they might find themselves occupying wasteland, if circumstances compel them to make good their threats. Oddly enough, the mainland regime seems to believe that death threats would induce their compatriots to eagerly embrace the mainland and consider communist proposals for reunification...
...officers encounter anyone from the rowdy homeless in front of Store 24 to crazed bike thieves skulking around Peabody Terrace. As all Harvard parents would sleep safe knowing, HUPD patrols the campus 24-7. It may not be New Haven, but like any city, crime oozes from the Cambridge soil...