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The other overhyped controversy that distracts ethicists from the real action is cloning.
But for those of us who cherish art for art's sake, gussying it up with photos, paint samples, and teapots merely trivializes and distracts.
Tell him, in your own words, that it pleases you that he manifests such happy feelings, but the musical expression of his joy distracts you and keeps you from putting out your very best work.
The Times of London, urging "an immediate intensification of military activities aimed directly at the Yugoslav army" in Kosovo, said in an editorial Monday that it is not so evident that the "Somalia Syndrome" "really affects ordinary Americans as much as it distracts their nervous elected representatives."
"Not in the lots of big words sense, not in the complicated ideas that make your head hurt sense, not in the having to think about stuff so hard that it distracts you from shopping and later that night you have that little sexual problem again, not me personally but some other stupider people sense," he didn't add.