This is the complete antithesis of regenerative medicine.

The antithesis of this whole thing is sustainable food.

And that if we don't do that, the antithesis, although we've heard otherwise, is we're really going to become extinct, because we're feeding our children to death.

Nevertheless, coups, whether violent or peaceful, are the antithesis of democratic institutions, and military rule can last a long time. Nigeria endured almost 15 years of it, despite repeated pledges by three successive dictators to restore democracy.

But creationists, whether biblical fundamentalists or believers in intelligent design, do pose a threat to scientific thinking. Indeed, creationism s insidious genius lies in its ability to reinvent evolution in its own image as a dogmatic belief system and thus the antithesis of science.

Militarism and patriarchy are inextricably linked, and both view masculinity as the opposite of femininity. If soldiers and, by extension, all real men are strong and daring, then real women should be the antithesis passive, obedient, and in need of protection as good wives, sisters, and mothers.

The Republic of Moldova and Georgia will also undertake joint diplomatic steps in international forums against aggressive separatism, which is an antithesis of democracy, and epitomizes totalitarian structures, terrorism, massive violation of human rights, trafficking, arms and drug smuggling, unlawful trade and money laundering, transnational corruption.

Of course, the fall of the house of Lehman Brothers has nothing to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Indeed, on the surface it seems to be its perfect antithesis the collapse of a wall symbolizing oppression and artificial divisions versus the collapse of a seemingly indestructible and reassuring institution of financial capitalism.

But the intensity of opposition in America to Bush runs deeper than any single issue. There is a growing recognition that the values he and his administration reflect are the antithesis of what America has long stood for the values of an open society, in which differences of view are freely debated within a culture of civility and mutual respect for the rights of all.