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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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25.11.02

Gloria Murillo�s one-acre farm in this central Colombian municipality looks like it met a forest fire. Her banana trees and corn stalks sag, their leaves brown. On the ground lie the charred remains of yucca, beans, rice and coffee. U.S.-supplied crop dusters have sprayed a high-octane version of Monsanto�s Roundup, killing not just her crop of coca�the raw material for cocaine�but also her family�s food crops. And the herbicide seems to have contaminated tributaries of a nearby river, the Cimitarra. Now Murillo�s four children have diarrhea and white sores. �They fumigated us like insects,�

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