Word: useless
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Among its many virtues, From Beirut to Jerusalem shows why messengers from the Middle East who try to remain impartial will find many factions eager to throttle them. The place lives and dies on faith and mythology; a mere fact is useless, possibly dangerous, until it has been modified to fit within a dogma. Most of the region's bloodiest episodes during the '80s, the author argues, arose from failures to recognize complex realities...
...Stone Age," says the National Wildlife Federation's Olson. The booms and skimmers that are most frequently used suffer some basic flaws: they do not work in rough seas, and heavy crude tends to seep under a boom and clog a skimmer. Finally, the devices are all but useless when confronted with a devastatingly large spill like the Valdez disaster. Once the oil had spread over the vast Prince William Sound, a boat towing a skimmer needed fully 14 hours to clear one narrow swath across the 35-mile-wide bay. The chemical dispersants often used in oil cleanups have...
...form follows grain. He has gathered an extensive collection of lumber that includes slabs of Carpathian elm, Oregon myrtle and French olive ash. Nakashima says, "I'm something of a Druid," and he sallies into the woods to check promising trees himself. "I use logs that would be almost useless to commercial furniture makers, with their concern for regular grain and thin veneers," he adds. "If a tree has had a joyful life it produces a beautiful grain. Other trees have lived unhappily -- bad weather or a terrible location. We use both kinds...
...scholars upon the academic life of the institution would be important, in that it would be yet another enriching ingredient for the enterprises of administration, teaching, learning and research. How is it possible for truly liberally educated individuals to decide a priori that a great body of knowledge is useless, or that whole groups of people (with some rare exceptions) are incapable of achieving--if, indeed, the search for truth is the issue in every field? And how is it possible to build an anti-racist educational environment where educational leadership is weakened from a lack of diversity...
...journalist closed by saying that a free press is important but unless it is handled responsibly it is useless: "Democracy is the power to choose and journalism is a mockery without info...