The received wisdom suggests that such ditherers should be old it would take billions of years to slow down that much from the dizzy pace of pulsar youth.

ECONOMIST: Pulsars

But there is one reason why even the most committed ditherers will have to act: the death rates are fast becoming too awful for anybody to ignore.

ECONOMIST: A health tragedy compounded by government farce

Soon the leaders of the Jewish state had been reduced to a collection of ditherers while cafes, markets, buses, hotels and the occasional minister of tourism went up in a cloud of smoke and body parts.

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