Nonetheless, I kept inflicting new books on them -- at least, I rationalized, they were free.
Whether visiting a chimpanzee research lab in New Iberia, Louisiana or exploring the Amazon rainforest, Surviving Progress takes a cynical look at the damage man keeps inflicting on his environment and wonders how much longer we have before the law of diminishing returns starts to work against us.
If you can't bring yourself to stop just now, at least keep from inflicting irreparable harm upon yourself, no matter how great the temptation to do so: Don't share cutting implements with anyone.
The subject of what to do with Helen's belongings has been one where I've been in receive mode from friends and family for some time: "Clear everything to help you move on"; "Don't clear too much as you'll regret it later"; "Involve the kids in what to keep"; "Don't inflict clearing their mum's stuff on the kids"; "Do it now"; "Do it next year"; "Don't do it".
In essence, they aim to take control of the sick bank and keep it operating while inflicting losses on its shareholders and, if necessary, its creditors.
The purpose of this special treatment is to keep the House and Senate from inflicting death by a thousand cuts on delicate negotiating positions and specific concessions.
The real problem behind pro sports' serial labor disputes is that the bargaining parties continually apply negotiation rules that do not keep the collateral damage inflicted on the public in mind.
There will no doubt be speculation, too, as to whether the new Kim has been watching and learning from the hardship the West is imposing on Iran — and the far greater punishment that Israel, and perhaps the United States, might inflict — to keep Tehran from acquiring a nuclear arsenal.
In the wake of Joao's wounding, friends ask me why I keep returning to photograph men inflicting suffering upon one another.
But the general public doesn't recognize that there are such people, in fact untold numbers of them, who are fighting the good fight never to do harm: who have sought help, recognized their own disease (again, often brought on by their own victimhood as children) and are trying their hardest with the help of therapists to not keep the pain going by inflicting it on someone else.
