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As the people of East Timor voted Monday on their future, the International Herald Tribune ran a comment from Hong Kong blaming the West for exacerbating the tragedy by its "romantic passion for encouraging the pettiest of nationalisms, not least that of the 800,000 inhabitants of half a small island in an archipelago populated by 200 million."
A proposal to ban knives altogether in 1993 had been rejected because small cutting implements were difficult to detect and the number of innocent "alarms" would have increased significantly, exacerbating congestion problems at checkpoints.
Those politicians who have devoted their lives to exacerbating that burden--like Bob Dole and Bill Clinton--would prefer to divert your attention to relative nonissues like the deficit.
Patients facing a life-threatening illness commonly experience anxiety over their fears and uncertainties about their future [ 41 ] . Compassionate exploration of the specific issues that are causing or exacerbating anxiety may be complex.
Further exacerbating the problem (and unlike kidney, liver, and heart transplants, where only one donor is needed for each recipient) most islet transplant patients require islets from two or more donors to achieve euglycemia.