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Sage says he has made an effort to thank the customers like McMillan who have, over the years, become his friends. He knows that his store--and its seeming ability to withstand the changes in the Square--has become quite important to many of them. But not enough to keep him in business...
...Thomas More's son-in-law tells More that he would cut down all the laws in England to get the devil. More replies that he would give the devil himself the benefit of law for his own safety's sake--for after the laws were felled, nothing could withstand the winds that would howl, there being no place left to hide. The greatest casualty in the war on drugs has been chipping away of the forest of laws that represent our civil liberties. And no liberty has been pinched tighter than that against unreasonable searches and seizures...
Ecosystems are naturally resilient, but human impact can reduce their ability to bounce back in many ways. Rain forests withstand some degree of cutting, for instance, but once forest fragments shrink beyond some unknown threshold, the entire system loses its ability to recover. page refers to a recent study led by the University of Michigan's Lisa Curran, who contends that human activities such as logging may have doomed Indonesia's great dipterocarp trees, the anchor of its rain forests...
...drop of oil, has no mineral resources and manufactures no weapons of mass or minor destruction. And though the land is often convulsed by TV-worthy violence that lands it a slot on the American news, Lebanese have never stopped finding ways to live their lives. To withstand the punishments of centuries of invaders and civil wars, the Lebanese have evolved into a species that not only adapts to but takes advantage of all that is broken. The rebuilding of shredded downtown Beirut is a testament to the Lebanese will not only to survive but to do it in style...
...going to keep you from eating your favorite summer staple, corn on the cob. But before you take your next buttery bite, you may want to think twice: Those perfect-looking kernels were designed specially to withstand swarms of summer bugs without sustaining so much as an unwanted nibble. The problem, according to the National Academy of Sciences, is that the very characteristics in your food that are keeping insects at bay may also be launching an unseen attack on your body - and your lawn. The NAS scientists convened in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday and reviewed the risk of existing...