Word: apocalypticism
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What ever happened to global warming? Scientists have issued apocalyptic warnings for years, claiming that gases from cars, power plants and factories are creating a greenhouse effect that will boost the temperature dangerously over the next 75 years or so. But if last week is any indication of winters to...
Looking at the piles of rubble and scrap, it is hard to imagine that when it opened in 1978, the Basic Oxygen Process Shop No. 2, known as "the BOP shop," was among the most formidable steelmaking facilities in the world. The two huge Voest-Alpine furnaces could produce up...
Spoon, like many of his neighbors, has heard rumors that Davidian cultists eventually hope to build a new worship center at the apocalyptic site, and he is concerned that some of Koresh's followers could come back. Eleven cult survivors go on trial this week in San Antonio for conspiracy...
But perhaps you don't make your decision until second semester, after you've taken the apocalyptic course innocently titled "Organic Chemistry." Now you're really in trouble--you've probably taken six courses that add up to only one exemption.
Frank Sulloway, a visiting scholar of science history at M.I.T. and a longtime critic of Freud's methods, takes a somewhat more apocalyptic view: "Psychoanalysis is built on quicksand. It's like a 10-story hotel sinking into an unsound foundation. And the analysts are in this building. You tell...