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...Right should also realize the not-so-obvious political costs of opposing gay rights. We risk alienating the more conservative, yet more tolerant, generation of younger voters who vote Republican in greater numbers since Ronald Reagan. I also suspect that religiously inspired tirades against tolerance of gays weaken our case against abortion, for they make us seem like Bible-thumping absolutists on a witch hunt. Which is wrong, because there's a big distinction between the two issues. Thanks to groups like AALARM, that distinction is being obscured...
...billion kW-h of electricity a year -- about one-sixth the capacity of its more modern counterparts -- and boasts an excellent safety record. However, after decades of absorbing the high- energy neutrons that are released during nuclear reactions, the walls of Yankee Rowe's reactor vessel have begun to weaken. Just how much is not clear. This so-called reactor embrittlement is potentially the most dangerous problem faced by aging atomic plants, because a crack in these walls could expose the highly radioactive reactor core...
...Moscow generals hastened to proclaim that the destruction of Iraq's mostly Soviet-built equipment said more about the deficiencies of the Iraqi military than the quality of the weapons. Some of them hinted, however, that Soviet cuts in military spending, if carried much further, might begin to weaken the nation's defenses against the demonstrated proficiency of Western high-tech weaponry...
...Krochuk, Rouse, and Giering recreate "Bobby & Jackie & Jack," a song they sang together in last month's magnificent production of Merrily We Roll Along, reminds us that each of these songs was written for a specific moment in a specific play. Removing a song from its surroundings must weaken it, especially in a piece as dependent on the situation as "Pretty Women" from Sweeny Todd. Perhaps spoken introductions would restore some of the lost context...
...wouldn't have stayed up had he trusted the gum. And the ancient Romans would have been hard pressed to devise a method of execution that used poster gum instead of nails, unless they had been diabolical enough to realize that protracted attempts to use the stuff can themselves weaken the will to live...