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...skilled as the author is in strengthening certain characters, his choice to weaken Dudden by exposing the doctor's neuroses seems not to fit with the rest of the story. As a student, Dudden might have been described as cold and analytic at best. However, Coe's decision to allow the doctor to become consumed by a desire to live in a sleepless state proceeds in a forced and unconvincing direction. Insinuations that Dudden is little more than a mad scientist whose experiments in the realm of sleep deprivation must be stopped are tiresome and perhaps even inappropriate...
After all, by muting our inner voices and thoughts, we weaken ourselves. It is only once we share and unite them that we become strong and enact change...
Saddam decided to take advantage of the deepening split in the council, moving to weaken the inspection team by barring Americans from it. But he "misread the importance of the split," said a senior U.N. official. Though divided on whether to continue sanctions, the Security Council members weren't about to let Saddam dictate who could be on their inspection team. France, Russia and China joined the U.S. in a Security Council statement threatening Iraq with "serious consequences" if it expelled the Americans. "Saddam Hussein has shot himself in the foot again," said State Department spokesman James Rubin...
Does beta-carotene cause cancer? Will vitamin B6 damage the nerves? Can calcium weaken the kidneys? These were some of the unsettling questions raised by a story on the front page of the New York Times last week that had vitamin takers across the U.S. wondering if they--or their children--were swallowing too much of a good thing...
...Weaken family ties? But aren't they the glory of our daily existence, one of life's great spiritual rewards? Guess again. In Bowen's view, the emotions that govern family life are often tools of self-interest. Sometimes this is obvious--for example, in an outburst of anger or a fit of jealousy. But even such "good" emotions as affection can be instruments of control wielded out of insecurity. (Ever notice how your social failures outside the home can make your mate suddenly more endearing?) And the moral indignation hurled at a spouse--over his or her coldness, rudeness...