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Hawkes demonstrated delamination by pulling a loose piece of concrete off the tunnel wall, loosing a cloud of dust...
...recent Saturday afternoon, walkers outnumbered sun-worshipers. The part of the path connecting the beach to the clearing where Thoreau's cabin once stood was well-traveled; the pine needles and leaves on it had been ground into dust...
...Diet seats, but only five new constituencies are likely to be created in its place. Fear of being turfed from office is provoking talk of splits within the L.D.P. as anxious politicians begin shopping for new homes. Socialists are also looking for new patrons, and no one expects the dust to settle until after the next election. "The July election was a curtain closing," says Shusei Tanaka, a close Hosokawa adviser and a Diet member of the Sakigake, a small liberal party that broke from the L.D.P. to join the ruling coalition. "The next election will be a curtain raising...
...difficult to tell men from women, and waxed so proletarian that even army officers removed their badges of rank. Today the society is brazenly materialistic, roaring through cycles of boom and bust that have made millions rich. The free-for-all has also left hundreds of millions in the dust but still eager to get theirs. "People are thinking only about money," says a Chinese professor of philosophy in Beijing. "We are only interested in seizing the opportunity brought by this economic change," agrees 23-year-old photographer Nie Zheng...
...dust from the free speech wars settles, let's pause to ask ourselves a naive question: Exactly why should we be tolerant of opinions, convictions and ways of living that we consider (in order of increasing intolerability) strange, misguided, wrong, or evil? With a little reflection, we might be surprised to find that there are no easy answers. In fact, most of the reasons people give for tolerance are flawed. Here follows the most common arguments for tolerance, plus an uncommon one that I think beats all of them...