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[00:00]piston

[00:03]So auto repair for the island's vintage cars becomes a

[00:07]creative endeavor: shampoo is used for brake fluid; iron

[00:11]pipes are cut up for piston rings.

[00:14]plead

[00:15]First, the object of our study pleads for definition.

[00:19]What is an intellectual?

[00:22]dread

[00:23]The physicist rightly dreads precise argument, since

[00:27]an argument that is convincing only if it is precise loses

[00:31]all its force if the assumptions on which it is based are

[00:34]slightly changed

[00:36]stead

[00:38]The government's policy - not only to preserve its

[00:40]forest cover but to increase large scale reforestation and

[00:44]afforestation drives - also puts the country in good

[00:48]stead, says the report.

[00:51]plural

[00:53]However, contemporary Britain is an increasingly

[00:56]plural democracy, in which we all live alongside people

[01:00]whose worldviews we may dislike and whose opinions

[01:04]we may abhor.

[01:06]The pond-a common feature of rural resource

[01:10]management-collects water from the monsoon rains that

[01:13]would otherwise have just been wasted.

[01:17]Senate

[01:18]The US Senate has passed a sweeping healthcare reform

[01:21]bill, bringing Barack Obama a step closer to enacting one

[01:26]of his signature campaign promises and to meeting a goal

[01:29]sought by US presidents for decades.