Word: wreaking
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...situation in Haiti is deplorable (a situation not helped, incidentally, by the Clinton administration's ill-advised 1994 military intervention on the behalf of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide). I do not believe that it is commensurate with the kind of stifling, Stalinist repression that Fidel Castro continues to wreak upon Cuba. All the same, it seems to me that if Lewis wants to raise awareness of the plight of Haitians, the way to do it is not to deny the plight of Cubans. And I agree that we should treat all refugees equally--all should be allowed to stay...
...Jarvik 2000, by contrast, has a tiny rotary pump--sort of a coronary Wankel engine that spins rather than squeezes. That might eliminate the pulse, which some physicians think could wreak unpredictable havoc on the body, except that the Jarvik is designed to replace only the left ventricle; the right still provides a beat...
...Most people think oil spills cause the most harm to ocean life. They don't. Fishing does. When a tanker wrecks, news crews flock to film gooey beaches and dying animals. Journalists rush right past the picturesque fishing boats whose huge nets and 1,000-hook long-lines wreak far more havoc on the marine world than spilled...
...disease and outmate competitors. If approved, it could provide protein to millions of people at a time when fish stocks are perilously low. But as you might expect, some critics are carping. They consider the supersalmon a biological time bomb that could destroy the remaining natural salmon populations and wreak other environmental havoc. To them, the supersalmon is nothing less than a "Frankenfish...
...humanities-ville. With one question of their own, my comrades and classmates in the sciences sadistically wreak their revenge. "Tell me," they entreat innocently, "what's postmodernism...