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...GETTING WIRED Doctors replaced the needle tip with a thin wire that they threaded through the constricted valve...
...politicians offer formal regrets even as they privately savor the political rewards that the storms will blow in their direction. Such hypocritical tears were more effectively shed when the world was not in the constant glare of television. These days some of them are barely able to keep a thin smile hidden while they trot out pompous phrases of concern, interjected by poison - words that send private signals to their violent constituency. The camera shows...
...general populace seems to agree, and patience is wearing thin. "The public thinks unions are just interest groups acting at the cost of public welfare," says Nam Sung Il, a labor expert at Sogang University in Seoul. Activists appear to have worn out their welcome at Myeongdong Cathedral too. Says associate pastor Lee Jun Sung: "The church shouldn't be exploited as an arena for this kind of fight," adding: "These people just barged in." To drive the point home, the church has cut off electricity to the cathedral...
...similar amendment proposed in December 1999 failed to gain a two-thirds majority by a razor-thin margin, receiving 45 favorable votes and 23 unfavorable votes...
Harvard’s coverage of these fields may very well be thin. But this argument portrays ethnic studies as only a means of obtaining courses to fill the ranks of fledgling departments, courses that may have little to do with the concept of ethnic identity. Latin America and Latino America are very different subjects, and it’s hard to see why their history or sociology must be studied under the same rubric of “ethnic studies”—implying that some groups and regions are “ethnic” while...