This is perhaps the most glaring paradox in the global debate over the "war on drugs".
It might be a glaring paradox to be sheltered by a government that suppresses freedom of the press and civil rights, but his options are constrained.
Yet the glaring paradox of Bolivia's monitoring program is that vast amounts of the legally grown coca ultimately wind up in the hands of drug traffickers and are converted into cocaine and other drugs.
As one would expect from some of Ms Warner's earlier surveys, which have included books on monsters, fairy tales, heroism and the veneration of the Virgin Mary, the result is a wonderful cabinet of keenly observed curiosities.That such a study is possible at all is a glaring paradox.
But the annoyance over soaring energy costs here is magnified by a glaring paradox: Wyoming has so much coal, natural gas and uranium reserves that Gov. Jim Geringer, a Republican, recently told Congress that the state could match the energy output of the OPEC nations for the next 41 years.
There is a glaring paradox here: editors with the least experience and little demonstrated ability as scientists preside over most of the top-tier journals popular with authors (and with many of the committees that make important decisions about authors' careers).
