Instead of getting bogged down in studies over marijuana's medical benefits—of which there are plenty, and which will for the first time in 20 years get a hearing in federal court next week these initiatives instead focus on the ills of prohibition and the economic benefits of legalisation.
Or, is China one of the "poor nations," to which Obama pledged to "work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow"; or, perhaps, China is one of "those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty" and which "can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders".
Philosopher David Hume noted long ago: "We hang in perpetual suspense between life and death, health and sickness, plenty and want; which are distributed amongst the human species by secret and unknown causes, whose operation is oft unexpected, and always unaccountable.
These are the great laws of nature which are now well known to us; a due conformity with which would bring us health, plenty, and happiness, but which we cannot disregard any more than we can disregard any other physical law without suffering, and perhaps destruction.
So American tourists in backcountry Vietnam happen on rusting tanks and mortars and buy Zippo lighters with forged inscriptions in the Ho Chi Minh City war museum in a town where socialism is a joke, and which plenty of people don't even call Ho Chi Minh City.
However, it is totally possible to assign amounts of homework that are reasonable in length and difficulty, of good quality, compatible with healthy sleep habits and plenty of family time and which still quickly and effectively turn students off even to minimally school-like educational activities.
Unlike the Plumb siblings, Edgar and Fern, the married main characters in Ramona Ausubel's "Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty," which is set in Massachusetts, in the nineteen-seventies, are so wealthy that they have time to get philosophical about it.
Nonetheless, there is plenty we can do now and which the current government is in no way impeded from doing both ideologically and practically.
We love this Norwegian blue spruce one that's decorated with everything from fire cones to eucalyptus and which has plenty of hand-made touches, including hand-painted stars and reindeer.
By Andrea Woroch for GalTime.com. 1. Make a List: Go through your closet and decide what you need. Figure out which shoes are (literally) run down at the heel, and which have plenty of road left in them.
But think of it for a moment in comparison to a movement that, as a straight woman, I have plenty of personal experience with and which it closely mirrors, a movement which affected more than half of the people in the United States, and indeed, in the world: the women's movement.
