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I had indeed made a narrow escape . President Ahmadinejad 's rhetorical fulmination and presence on the international stage , including today at the U.N ., should not obscure the fact that he is not in complete command of Iran ' s foreign relations . The same individual submitted to me , without being at all aware of my intentions , a method of constructing balloons from the membrane of a certain animal , through which substance any escape of gas was nearly an impossibility . It [ page 19 :] seemed , therefore , that the effect of such escape was only sufficient to counterbalance the effect of the acceleration attained in the diminishing of the balloon 's distance from the gravitating centre . Three months or six months on , President Bush will find himself in another crisis where failure of Iraqis to do their part in rescuing themselves will leave Americans even deeper in the hole he finds us today . Although the United States presence is bound to diminish in the Middle East , for Iran ' s realists , American power can still present a barrier to projection of their influence and Tehran ' s resurgence . On the other hand , I was not aware that , in any recorded ascension , a diminution had been proved to be apparent in the absolute rate of ascent ; although such should have been the case , if on account of nothing else , on account of the escape of gas through balloons ill-constructed , and varnished with no better material than the ordinary varnish . Because women have higher expenses , they ’ re going to reach this “ donut hole ” much sooner than men . We closed Social Security ’ s financing gap with a roughly equal combination of benefit cuts and new revenue . For the five decades since then , North Korea has felt insecure by the perceived potential nuclear threat of the remaining U.S. military presence in South Korea . By 2050 , scheduled benefits are projected to exceed revenues by 35 percent and the gap will continue to grow thereafter . This approach , however , was still impetuous in the extreme ; and it soon became alarmingly certain that , although I had probably not [ page 43 :] been deceived in the expectation of an atmosphere dense in proportion to the mass of the satellite , still I had been wrong in supposing this density , even at the surface , at all adequate to the support of the great weight contained in the car of my balloon . I now considered that , provided in my passage I found the medium I had imagined , and provided it should prove to be essentially what we denominate atmospheric air , it could make comparatively little difference at what extreme state of rarefaction I should discover it — that is to say , in regard to my power of ascending — for the gas in the balloon would not only be itself subject to similar rarefaction , ( in proportion to the occurrence of which , I could suffer an escape of so much as would be requisite to prevent explosion , ) but , being what it was , would , at all events , continue specifically lighter than any compound whatever of mere nitrogen and oxygen . Through their presence in the key institutions that link with the traditional clerical community , intimate ties to the supreme leader , they chart a court of Iran 's foreign policy that is somewhat different . At that point they reach what we ’ ve started to call a “ donut hole .