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Most Resurgent Decade Nineties fashions hitched a ride back to the '60s. Skirts hiked back up to mini length. Widened ties boasted loud colors. Headbands returned. Designers even resurrected Jane Fonda's Barbie-goes-to- Armageddon sado suits...
...months June 23 had loomed as the date of Canada's constitutional Armageddon. If the ten provinces failed by that time to ratify the delicate agreement known as the Meech Lake accord, years of effort at balancing the aspirations of French- and English-speaking Canadians would automatically fall apart -- and so, in the most pessimistic prognosis, might the country...
...mission that would justify its continued existence. In what defense specialist Edward Luttwak calls a "geopolitical meltdown," the collapse of the Warsaw Pact has forced the Pentagon to reassess what sorts of war the U.S. may have to fight in the future. Rather than a huge tank-and-artillery Armageddon on the central front of Europe, the most likely outbreaks will be "low-intensity conflicts" such as the American invasions of Grenada and Panama. Although these are precisely the sort of assignment for which the Marines were created, they played no central role in either of them. Their absence bolstered...
...celebrated Earth Day, the followers of Elizabeth Clare Prophet (a.k.a. Guru Ma) in Montana's Paradise Valley were cleaning up their own environmental mess. Thousands of gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel have leaked out of underground tanks built by Prophet's Church Universal and Triumphant in preparation for Armageddon...
...that Europe has been largely at peace, the Middle East has been plunged into war at least nine times. Europe is living proof that the balance of terror works: with so many weapons of mass destruction in so many arsenals, a single bullet fired in anger could touch off Armageddon. Therefore the guns are silent. The Middle East has had the benefit of no such inhibition: there is too much terror and too little balance...