Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Celine composed Mea Culpa after touring Russia in 1936. The tract castigates the government that had invited him; it is a frenzied denunciation of the Soviet system's accomplishments, goals and aspirations. He appends a peculiarly personal tag to an ostensibly social message, but then, Celine typically let instinct hold sway over his world-view. He scorned dispassionate philosophy. Instinct tends to be an irrational, solipsistic faculty, and Celine's surrender to it poisoned his literary reputation...
Food faddists credit yogurt with nearly universal virtues. They say it prolongs life and improves the work of the digestive tract. (Dannon is preparing a TV commercial of 125-year-old Soviet Georgians eating yogurt.) Some women believe it makes an excellent douche and a fine face mask. Scientists make no such claims, although doctors do sometimes prescribe yogurt for patients taking antibiotics. The drugs indiscriminately destroy bacteria in the intestinal tract, and yogurt supposedly replaces them. Moreover, skim-milk yogurt is a good low-calorie source of protein, calcium and phosphorus...
TCDD is so toxic, according to one scientist, that a single gram is capable of killing thousands of people. The gas can cause blistering, and damage to the liver, spleen, kidneys, respiratory tract and nervous system; it may also cause deformities in unborn children...
...point as fast as possible"), he built up a cando, populist image. Although he was popular and admired, Kaku-san was never able to free himself of the whiff of financial scandal. Typical was the Shinano-Gawa riverbed case of 1964. A nameless company bought an abandoned tract of dry land in the Shinano River, then made a killing later on when the government revealed railroad and highway projects that caused land prices to skyrocket; the company also turned out to have a former secretary to Tanaka on its board of directors. Though accused repeatedly of corruption, Tanaka until last...
...emulating them. Honeybees group together in hives or colonies that might be compared to the human body?the queen, the only fertile female in a hive, functioning as the reproductive system; the workers, or sterile females, who gather nectar and feed the young, as the arms, legs and digestive tract; the drones, whose sole function is to fertilize the queen, as the heart that keeps the system going...