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Duehay says the burden is on Cantabrigians to push for changes to make their city government better, if necessary...
...After all, just three months ago Thailand was embarrassed by a hostage drama at the Burmese embassy, and ended up granting a group allied with God's Army safe passage after negotiating an end to the crisis. If the pint-sized terrorists plan to wreak havoc, Thailand wants to make sure they don't do it on the Thai side of the border...
...According to Schou, the Swedish law has resulted in such a severe donor shortage that hundreds of Swedish couples seek help each year in Denmark. Attracting donors is not much of a problem in Aarhus, which has a large university population. But only about 10% of those who apply make it through the screening process, which includes a psychological assessment as well as a battery of medical tests to rule out HIV, hepatitis and other diseases...
...worse in his time than it was before he arrived on the planet. To admit that life is 99.9 percent continuum (human nature and weather itself being more or less constant, with certain variations, and things tending to even out over the centuries, except for occasional ice ages) might make the man feel ordinary - or, in any case, not sufficiently superior to millions of his predecessors who, after all, suffer the hugely disqualifying human defect of being, at the present time, dead. Being alive brings with it a certain prestige, and a tendency to exaggerate...
...wonders, denigrating much of what came before; or else, reversing the error, we insult the present by imagining it to be dramatically worse (more depraved, for example, more satanic, even) than the past was. I'll have the best of times, please, but if those are not available, make it the worst of times...