They pray to him whose bane is more imminent than his boon How bad the protector and how bad the associate!

They pray to him whose bane is more imminent than his boon How bad the protector and how bad the associate!

And many of you out there are the heads of Macromedia and Microsoft, and in a way those are my bane I think there's a great homogenizing force that software imposes on people and limits the way they think about what's possible on the computer.

Even government deficit spending long the bane of Africa seems positively puny compared to the massive debts that the US and some European countries face. The new Obama administration is proposing spending plans that would create a record US deficit of more than one trillion dollars and this coming on top of the outgoing Bush administration s record deficit.

Comparative epidemiologists have repeatedly noticed something remarkable about these illnesses only Western countries (or, more precisely, societies with monotheistic traditions) particularly prosperous Western countries are subject to prevalence rates of this magnitude. Southeast Asian countries appear to be especially immune to the bane of severe mental illness in other regions, poverty, or lack of development, seems to offer a protective barrier.