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To celebrate his unification of Japan after more than a century of civil war, Hideyoshi had made the castle the country’s greatest fortress, so the Tokugawa felt obliged to destroy it in 1615 after snatching power away from Hideyoshi’s heir.
The paradox inherent in all of this, of course, is that the Internet really is an incredibly destabilizing technology, both economically and politically, and yet the Chinese government is doing its best to hold it fixed, even though holding it fixed (if that's possible) is the best way to destroy its value.
A piece argues that black Americans espouse paranoid myths (that the CIA sells crack in the inner cities, for example) because it's easier for them to believe that white America is trying to destroy them than to believe that white America doesn't care about them.
A kid in upstate New York was found with a bomb-making arsenal with which he evidently planned to destroy his school.
Most of these double mutations will be classified as compensatory mutations according to our definition (because each individual mutation of such pairs will most likely destroy the secondary structure), and therefore a single neutral path according to random graph theory will appear as several independent paths linked together by compensatory mutations in our analysis.