The Hard Right Goes Soft

Many tropical tree species have seeds that are dispersed by ants.

Some forecasters predict a soft landing, but differ on the growth rate.

Many ant dispersed seeds have special external structures, elaiosomes, that are sought after by ants as food.

and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.

And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee it shall be unto you most holy.

Such tactics, in which banks are nudged, not coerced, into investing in government debt, constitute soft financial repression.

He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

The dawn of democracy in 1994 gave birth to hopes of an equal society, free from the prejudices of the discriminatory laws that kept South Africans apart for so long.

Production facilities When two stage weapons became standard in the early 1950s, weapon design determined the layout of the new, widely dispersed U.S. production facilities, and vice versa.

Thousands of Kurds took to the streets in celebration of Newroz, in a pre planned event, but were dispersed with water cannons, tear gas and kettled across Turkey today.

For two years, I searched for a fiber that could survive ultraviolet rays, salt, air, pollution, and at the same time remain soft enough to move fluidly in the wind.

But instead of finding sanctuary from violence in the national capital, their peaceful march to the US Embassy was met with brutality as police violently dispersed the protest with tear gas and truncheons just as it was about to end.

The mistreatment of disenfranchised populations in the Philippines is, unfortunately, nothing new. Earlier this year, farmers asking for rice in Kidapawan, Mindanao were violently dispersed by police. And the Tumandok indigenous peoples in Panay Island will be displaced with the construction of a mega dam.