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• n  a change for the worse
• n  alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it
• n  the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself)

• As I see it, the terrorist organizations represent a deformation of Islam in the same way as Nazism is a deformation of German patriotism and Bolshevism is a deformation of .
• Many of the children, however, have already suffered permanent brain damage and bone deformation as a result of malnutrition.
• But we would expect to see more and larger quakes, deformation and precursory explosions out of the lake.

• distortion
• contortion

News & Articles

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• Martian Dry Ice Gliders
  Glaciers move, or flow, downhill due to gravity and the internal deformation of ice on Earth. It is not the same when there is dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide). NASA research indicates hunks of frozen carbon dioxide -- dry ice -- may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as they go. Researchers deduced this process could explain one ...
  June 14, 2013 - Environmental News Network
• Guest Post: Social Security: The New Deal’s Fiscal Ponzi
  Submitted by David Stockman via the Ludwig von Mises Institute , [Excerpt from THE GREAT DEFORMATION: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. Stockman . Published by PublicAffairs.] The Social Security Act of 1935 had virtually nothing to do with ending the depression, and if anything it had a contractionary impact. Payroll taxes began in 1937 while regular benefit payments did not ...
  June 10, 2013 - Zero Hedge
• Guest Post: Social Security: The New Deal’s Fiscal Ponzi
  Submitted by David Stockman via the Ludwig von Mises Institute , [Excerpt from THE GREAT DEFORMATION: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. Stockman . Published by PublicAffairs.] The Social Security Act of 1935 had virtually nothing to do with ending the depression, and if anything it had a contractionary impact. Payroll taxes began in 1937 while regular benefit payments did not ...
  June 10, 2013 - Zero Hedge

Quotes

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• Bruno Dumont in Derby Evening Telegraph
  I do not want to build. I destroy and deform. And in this deformation, expression occurs,says Dumont.
• Andrei Sakharov in The Moscow Times
  The regeneration of the [Soviet] society is possible only on a [new] moral foundation,Andrei Sakharov said in 1989. "There have been tragic deformation of our people because of the terror and the many years of living in lies and hypocrisy....
• Umberto Eco in AFP
  Beauty is frequently boring. The nose of a human Barbie can only be so long, but there is an infinity of deformation,Eco said of the subject he tackles in "On Ugliness", his latest work which he presented here. "I was not disturbed by...