Word: exception
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...that many consider abhorrent and dangerous. Communists may freely run for office. Nazis may march through a city with a large Jewish population. The Klan may advocate the repeal of civil rights statutes. Anything else is thought control. At the heart of the First Amendment is the belief that, except in the rare circumstances when speech will demonstrably cause immediate physical harm, it is simply impossible to draw a line...
...doubt he's being coy with this modest proposal. But coy or not, he's missing the basic point that the stock market is a far more important national resource than the bond market, particularly the government bond market. After all, what is the government bond market except a creation of Uncle Sam's inability to pay his bills? When you "invest" in government bonds, you are merely the enabler that allows the deadbeat Uncle to continue to live in arrears, the same as if you lent the money to a neighborhood credit-card abuser...
...Italy, Galileo Galilei pointed his newly handmade telescope skyward, stared into the eyepiece and gasped in excitement. Through the lenses of the world's first astronomical telescope, four white spots were clearly visible floating near a brightly shining planet. Galileo had discovered Jupiter's four major moons, the first (except for Earth's own moon) ever seen around a planet...
...agreement was reached on the liquid-hydrogen-fueled Centaur rocket, the 1986 Challenger disaster not only shut down the shuttle program for nearly three years but also heightened awareness that the Centaur was too risky for a manned craft--in Van Allen's words, "like carrying a hydrogen bomb, except it's more likely...
...treated well, except they made me stay up all night once," Rohde said, adding that the captors often reminded him of Serbian reporters captured and killed by Bosnian an troops...