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...useless has it proved to be, trying to give Omar a black eye? He is an educated man of the world, somewhat like Quintus Horatius Flaccus, good company, urbane, witty, tolerant... If the noble vintage of his petry ever made adipsomaniac or his indulgent smile ever broke up a marriage, that news has yet to come in over the teletype...
...what mental health is. With each passing year we can see what a slippery concept mental health or the absence of stress is. Our concept of what it is to get along in our society is an ever changing process, and to conceive of it in any absolute sense useless at any time of life and especially during adolescence...
Complete defoliation could also cause laterization, the destructive process that occurs in some tropical soils when removal of vegetation exposes them to erosion and sunlight. In South America, lateritic soil has baked into rock-like hardness and become useless with in five years after it was cleared for farming. As yet, there is no evidence of laterizing of similar soils in Viet Nam after defoliation, probably because the ground cover is never completely destroyed and grass and weeds reappear...
...would be a standing shame if the bills were not passed, or, if they were so weakened so as to be totally useless...
Commission members number in the tens--instead of the thousands most observers feel the situation requires. They are organized into two sorts of units: "fixed" teams which are now largely useless in a shadowy guerrilla war: and all-important "mobile" teams, which hardly deserve the label. Not even land transport is abundant. Nonpayment by Geneva conference members, who supposedly share the costs of the ICC has placed the operating expenses on the shoulders of the Poles, Canadians, and Indians. Naturally, they have not inclined toward extravagance...