Word: apocalypticism
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Marine Lt. Ed Cunningham's warning was spot-on: "It will be like flying into a hornet's nest." As he and Capt. Bryan Willard piloted their large, CH-53 helicopter closer to New Orleans on Saturday, the sky was frenetically dotted with all types and sizes of choppers, bobbing...
In Japan the obliteration of Hiroshima did not at first yield conclusive results. Japanese scientists assessing the Hiroshima damage doubted that the Americans could possibly have harvested enough radioactive material to make more than a few bombs. It was even likely, they said, that Hiroshima was a one-off stunt...
The Social Democratic Party ( spd) agreed to abandon its Marxist rhetoric and embrace market capitalism in 1959, but casual observers of the current political campaign in North Rhine?Westphalia could be forgiven for not knowing that. Party officials led by chairman Franz Müntefering have delivered a ferocious critique...
South Park (Comedy Central, Wednesdays, 10 P.M. E.T.) It's hard to say that a cartoon that has featured talking fecal matter has "matured." But South Park has, after nearly eight years, grown into TV's sharpest topical satire. In a recent episode, a character becomes hooked on the Sony...
Irrational fear, paranoia and apocalyptic statements have abounded. More than one normally understated scientist has termed AIDS "the disease of the century." Others have, in the tradition of divine justification, viewed it as God's revenge on sodomites and junkies. There have been far more pervasive epidemics, certainly. In 1918...