Is Mexico Disintegrating?

The ideal of a unified Europe, though not designed to explode, could well disintegrate nonetheless.

The good news, however, is that European foreign policy has not unraveled in the crisis.

This event happened in less than 10,000 years and occurred just before Pangaea started to break apart.

The dress would get really heavy, and eventually the seams would probably fall apart leaving me feeling rather naked.

The danger, then, is a failure to deliver the knockout blow at a time when the group appears to be disintegrating.

Moreover, independence would not be accepted by the Serbian public, which has already watched in dismay as Great Serbia has been gradually whittled away, most recently with the secession of Montenegro.

Might Europe get lucky? Is there any chance that the snowball of debt, dysfunction, and doubt will fall apart harmlessly before it gathers more force?

Chemical reactions can result in the formation or dissociation of molecules, that is, molecules breaking apart to form two or more smaller molecules, or rearrangement of atoms within or across molecules.

Like used cars that break down right after they are sold, tomatoes and apples that look good but taste like water, or suits that quickly become threadbare, the seller could reduce the quality of the product and cut costs without the buyer s knowledge.

If the world has not fallen off the protectionist precipice during the crisis, as it did during the 1930 s, much of the credit must go the social programs that conservatives and market fundamentalists would like to see scrapped.

The ideal of a unified Europe, though not designed to explode, could well disintegrate nonetheless. To understand why, it helps to revisit the intellectual origins of the European Union.