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...sustain such a character for nearly 1,000 pages, Moorcock provides an exotic itinerary, a robust cast of opportunists and scoundrels, and a series of dangerous adventures and sexual escapades. Pyat's first stop on his flight from Bolshevism is Istanbul, a teeming cosmopolis of thieves and whores but also a site idealized as the bastion of a once glorious Christendom. From there, the grotesque innocent moves west through Rome, Paris, New York City and Hollywood...
...money will allow the Center for Science and International Affairs, which publishes the review, to sustain quality in the publication without draining its endowment, according to Stephen J. Flanagan, assistant director...
Certainly the statesmanlike attitude both sides showed in Geneva will be difficult to sustain over the many months--quite likely years--that remain before a substantive agreement can be negotiated. But the compulsion to strike a pose of reasonableness at least served to get things started...
...German Theologian Father Bernard Häring has argued that biological functions, far from being "untouchable," must be "subordinated to the good of the whole person and marriage itself." Jesuit Richard McCormick of Georgetown University claims "a lot of bishops believe you can't find the arguments to sustain papal teaching." Father Charles Curran of the Catholic University of America doubts that the ban is based on good reasoning, concluding that "faith and reason cannot contradict one another." Curran and McCormick think that the Pope may crack down on dissident priests and make the birth control issue a litmus...
...case and has no qualms about the use of baboons, which, he says, are shot on sight by South African farmers, who consider them a nuisance. Perhaps the strangest example of simian-human surgery was tried in 1975 by Cardiologist Magdi Yacoub in England. In an effort to sustain the life of a one-year-old boy during extensive surgery, Yacoub connected the child's circulatory system to the heart of a living baboon. Both the boy and the animal died during the procedure...