And I had an address of a tiny restaurant in Falls Church, Va., a few miles beyond the Potomac, that I had heard served the cuisine of Laos, which I loved when I visited that country last year and haven't been able to find in New York.
In short, based on its disagreement with my political views, the government sent me to a prison unit from which it would be harder for me to be heard, serving as a punishment for my beliefs.
In the end, people view everything through the filter of what they already know What they see and hear serves to confirm existing views rather than prompt reappraisal, and those already leaning one way or another tend to actively gather evidence to support their view.
A historic meeting of Latin America's leaders, to be attended by Barack Obama, will hear serving heads of state admit that the war on drugs has been a failure and that alternatives to prohibition must now be found.
In those animals with auditory structures, hearing serves purposes of great biological value: in its more primitive forms, it is used to sense danger and enemies, to detect prey, and to identify prospective mates; at a more complex level, hearing is involved in communication within social groups and in emotional expressions of various kinds.
I've met people who believe that despite the fact that we gave birth to them, our children are deaf and should belong to the signing Deaf community (in the distinct culture and community of those with fluency in sign language, "Deaf" is always capitalized) — and neither spoken language nor the culture of hearing serves them.
"Kalam Fil Moufid gives a voice for the youth to be heard and serves as a platform to help their overall development," said Dr. Vijay Kumar Moses, UNICEF Egypt's Deputy Representative, explaining that as the youth constitute 31% of the Egyptian population, the webpage is part of UNICEF's larger efforts to engage a large, but often neglected, segment of society.
Still, even if Rakoff had decided nothing Thursday — save for tossing out each side's expert witnesses — the hearing served as a preview of a trial.
The Senate hearing served primarily to highlight the political jockeying surrounding the Supreme Court's deliberations, as Democrats and Republicans try to gauge the possible impact of a ruling by the justices on Latinos, a pivotal group of voters in the presidential contest.
Cochlear implants, which are devices that are surgically implanted into a patient's cochlear to improve their hearing, serve this exact purpose.
