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Alternatively, the Senate's proposed defense program (combined with Gingrich's desire to "eviscerate" the American role in international affairs) will come back to haunt us. In the vacuum of a powerless U.N., we will find ourselves a lonely superpower indeed, fraught with the paranoia that unregulated nuclear arsenals all over the Middle East are trained at the West, and that consequently, a new and much more dangerous arms race--which the Senate's misguided Cold War idealism has already endorsed--is the only solution left to our national security...
Indeed, the brain abhors a vacuum, observes neuroscientist Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran of the University of California at San Diego; it craves information, and when it can't come by the data honestly, it does the best it can with what it has. One of his patients, for instance, a physical-therapy professor from San Antonio, Texas, suffered a brain hemorrhage that left a huge blank spot in her otherwise normal field of vision-or, rather, it would be blank if her brain allowed it. First, she saw a drawing of a cat, presumably supplied by her visual memory. "Then," says...
TIME: Some people say that if your ruling P.R.I. does not reform, it could destroy itself, and Mexico would wind up with a political vacuum...
...They block out what should be a prime focalpoint of our square," said Lansing Fair, an InmanSquare resident. "[The quotes] are cynicalproverbs designed to be read in a vacuum of publicsupport...
Optimism cannot paper over the country's problems, however. Political violence is disappearing, but good old-fashioned crime has more than filled the vacuum, making South Africa one of the most violent countries on earth, with a murder rate six times that of the U.S.'s. Moreover, some A.N.C. officials have been accused of corruption. Wary foreign investors say that while South Africa has an excellent infrastructure and a sophisticated banking system, its work force -- at least compared with Asia's-is undereducated, overpaid and too politicized...