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...Corps took five years to finally decide that academic training, with its endless lectures, rules, and tests, was almost completely useless preparation for life overseas. Until then, though volunteers often complained, the Corps continued to run tightly structured programs which too often discouraged curiosity and initiative...
...would increase the compensation of the strikers in violation of the law." In Saypol's opinion, the issue at stake is nothing less than the very preservation of the rule of law. If laws that are disliked can be violated with impunity, then anarchy prevails and "liberties become useless," said the judge...
...Profit." After its first publicity in 1951, the American Medical Association denounced the drug as a "secret remedy" (and therefore anathema to conservative doctors)-and useless besides. Neither the American Can cer Society nor the Government's National Cancer Institute would sponsor a scientific test of the substance; they did not know what it was, they said, and there was not even preliminary evidence that it did any good. After years of wrangling, the Food and Drug Administration got samples from Durovic for testing, and eventually came to the conclusion that they contained nothing but creatine monohydrate, a common...
...novel's only success is in its title. The comedians are all the characters, playing out their painful, useless little lives under the blistering sun, supposedly caring deeply about all sorts of things which can be considered only comic when compared to the course of humanity itself, or the universe. Every once in a while the narrator steps back and comments on how they are all comedians, as sad and funny as clowns on a stage. The real irony is that the narrator never has to step back and comments on how they are all comedians, as sad and funny...
...commercials' methods are as brutal as they are efficient. Instead of nets, which are useless against big game fish, the fishermen string out "long lines" -ropes or metal cables anywhere from two to 60 miles in length with baited hooks attached every twelve to 25 ft. The long lines are left in the water for 24 hours or more, supported by buoys and equipped with radar beacons to spot their location for the boat. Fish hooked on the long lines fight hopelessly against the miles-long cable until they drown or are mutilated by sharks. Off Baja California...