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...Havana for a debt conference, and Fidel Castro urged his guests to repudiate their obligations. Bankers remain confident, however, that the Latin American countries will not default. Such a drastic strategy would cut them off from international credit, which for some is the only means of paying for vital imports like food and fuel...
...cells (or T lymphocytes, as they are also known), invading them in much the same way that the hepatitis virus homes in on cells in the liver. Once ensconced in the T cell, explains Dr. Clifford Lane of the National Institutes of Health, the AIDS virus prevents this vital cell from doing its job as "the initiator of all the immune-system response." Says Lane: "It turns the T cell off from being a lymphocyte and on to being an AIDS-virus factory...
...drunk-all-the-time libertarian mode," who made her more socially conservative. But there was a twist. In 1984, in an article for the conservative Cornell Review, Coulter attacked its editor for writing, "Statistics are like bikinis: what they show is important, but what they conceal is vital." "The message is clear," Coulter responded in her article. "The vital parts are the breasts and the vagina, so go get her." I was surprised to find that the piece made a standard feminist argument against pornography (an "atrocity" in which women are "exploited" and "dehumanized"). Its opening lines are: "Conservatives have...
...function of the human mind and rejects the dichotomy between thought, as expressed in language, and feelings, which require some other sort of symbolic portrayal, like art. In Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, her three-volume masterwork published between 1967 and 1982, she conceives of feelings as the vital process of the mind and argues that "intellect is a high form of feeling...
...week; 43 were taken into custody, including John Jacob, the president of the National Urban League, and 35 of that organization's officials. Noting that he had never been arrested in a demonstration before, Jacob said, "It is an experience to be considered only when the principle is of vital importance...