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...have come too late or been too small to do anything but add to the deficit. But that's not my gripe. My gripe is that telling Americans they need to borrow and spend just a little bit more to get us past this recession?and then reform their ways???is like telling an alcoholic he needs one more drink before sobering...
They indeed have grown up, and in some ways???also like children?have grown away. The economic change is particularly dramatic. The 1950s and most of the 1960s were a kind of golden age in the alliance, when business goals and interests were shared to an extraordinary extent. But today, in the words of Francis Wilcox, director of the Atlantic Council of the U.S., "the other allies have different energy needs from ours and even different dependencies...
...Carriers bring in heroin (or cocaine) in innumerable ingenious ways???including, on one occasion, stuffing it inside a live boa constrictor. A more common method, however, is for women airline passengers to travel to Miami with cocaine or heroin hidden in their girdles or in false-bottomed suitcases. Near Santiago there is a factory specializing in making suitcases with hidden compartments. The agents are catching more and more such carriers, in part through use of a secret "smuggler's profile"?a telltale behavior pattern apparently common to amateur smugglers...
...presented evidence that seemed to rule out the possibility. Although amino acids can be assembled in two ways???one a mirror image of the other?most of those found in terrestrial life have a left-handed configuration; that is, polarized light waves passed through them are rotated slightly to the left. Yet, when Ponnamperuma tallied up the meteorite's amino acids, he found an almost equal distribution of left-and right-handed molecules. That, he felt, was a clear sign that they had come from space...
...valley of turmoil. . . We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another," he said, "until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways???to the voices of quiet anguish, the voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices and the anxious voices and the voices that have despaired of being heard...