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...mirror earthward, Discovery had to fly with its nose forward and pitched downward. When it passed over the Maui facility on its 37th orbit Wednesday, the shuttle was instead flying backward with its nose pitched slightly upward. A NASA spokesman sheepishly called the mistake a "ground- based accounting error...
...Soviet Union. Spies are good guys, pure and simple, as long as they are on the Soviet side. Even in czarist times, secret agents were regarded as legitimate and indispensable protectors of a sprawling empire that was surrounded by hostile forces and infested with political malcontents and agitators. Backward in so many other respects, Russia was precocious in developing a police apparatus. That institution was ready-made for the Bolsheviks, with their militant ideology and their conspiratorial, secretive methods. According to Marxism-Leninism, politics is a continuation of war by other means. Spies are in the front line of that...
...game. What the world saw in Bangladesh and Belgium was nature out of control -- external nature in one place, human nature in the other. One ought to be used to such sights by now. Yet a peculiar terror rises in the age of progress from seeing people carried backward, haplessly becoming the forces that oppose them...
...most unsettling aspect of such events is how quickly they come and go. People are borne backward in air and then are suddenly dropped on their seats. The ground is dry again, the stadium walls are cemented, the dead have been carted away. Were it not for the holes in the census, one would never know that a disaster took place, so smoothly does the earth seal its fissures. Even memory, which honors and cherishes the dead, recalls nothing of the rage except that it existed, that it was awful feeling like paper in a storm, even...
...felt that it was backward and to gave them special work after they've gone through regular expos," Marius said yesterday