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But I would be hard pressed to think of a single economist not actually employed by an anti-environmental lobbying operation who believes that the United States should protect the environment less, not more, than it currently does.
In Sunday's column, Maureen Dowd pointed out that when Ken Starr was pressed recently to justify the $30 million he's spent so far javerting Bill Clinton, Starr replied that hey, he always flies coach on his investigatory jaunts to Little Rock.
If you cast your gaze over the world today, you'd be hard pressed to find anything that is a starker example of tragedy.
To append gene information to a filtered list in Bullfrog or Spot, the browse button next to the 'Enter Probe Set Description From File:' statement at the bottom of the filter criteria table is pressed (Figure 3).
Yarn paintings are created on a wooden base covered with wax; colorful threads are pressed into the wax to form designs that are symbolic representations of the world of the Huichol.