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...feeble fire extinguishers they carried were no match for the oxygen-fed flames. Ordinarily if things got out of hand, the crew could evacuate in a Soyuz capsule docked outside. But this time the fire blocked their path. Fortunately, the flames exhausted themselves before it became necessary to abandon ship, and the crisis passed...
...surrounded by the forces of the mightiest nation on earth, the ambassador decided to abandon his ramshackle redoubt deep in a lower ventricle of Texas. He had sent out a "Mayday" on shortwave radio, calling on "any nation in the world" for assistance. "We have hostiles in the woods," he cried. "We are being invaded!" But no one came to his aid, and his supporters were beginning to trickle away. Even the ambassador's wife had decided to leave the combination lean-to and trailer that was designated the "embassy compound." Thus, shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday, with barely...
Then in 1990 a new doctor suggested a radical solution: Ventura should go back on morphine and stay on it. Drug companies had developed a timed-release formula that had proved helpful in other cases. The treatment allowed Ventura to abandon his hospital bed and, for the first time, lift his infant son. The downside was that he was chemically dependent on morphine; the upside was that he was no longer in pain. "I had a lot of trepidation about taking narcotics," says the ex-cop, now 46. "But until I was put on sustained-release morphine...
That citation, from historian Norman Cantor, appears in Dershowitz's book; but the contrarian defense lawyer takes issue with its grim tone. Intermarriage, he argues, is the inevitable consequence of long-sought success and social acceptance. Rather than trying to forbid it, American Jews must abandon an outmoded self-image as persecuted and mine their traditions for a powerful new identity that children and grandchildren will embrace. Somewhat eccentrically, he notes that the new identity need not include a religious aspect...
...power to persuade 38 followers to abandon their lives and families and commit suicide in the hope of leaving the earth aboard a spaceship, then maybe it is time for all of us to find our own comet and get as far away from this planet as possible. ALEX HOEFINGER Amherst, Massachusetts...