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...continue to expect it. In the face of so long an uncertainty, how has his following not only endured but grown so hugely through two millenniums? And what can be expected of his long potent holding power over human imagination and hope in the near and distant future? If benign Christian institutions and the capacity to believe in a God who loves his creation should weaken fatally, if the artistic inspiration of the figure of Jesus should wane--as it has in some of the West today--are the existential promises of his teaching sufficient to maintain a world faith...
...that's just the relatively benign municipal solid waste. Each year American industries belch, pump and dump more than 2.5 billion lbs. of really nasty stuff--like lead compounds, chromium, ammonia and organic solvents--into the air, water and ground. That's about 400 Olympic poolfuls of toxic waste...
...lower end of this predicted warming range, the temperature rise would take us back to the conditions that existed between A.D. 950 and 1350, when the climate was 1[degree]C (2[degrees]F) warmer than it is now. This time period is regarded as one of the most benign weather regimes in history. To find temperature swings at the upper end, you have to go back 10,000 years, to when the earth was exiting the last Ice Age. Temperatures during the Ice Age were 5[degrees]C (10[degrees]F) cooler than they are now, and there...
...from here on in have been replaced with pseudo-usernames). What did "minitrof" have to ytalk about with "emclurm" yesterday afternoon? They were chatting for an awfully long time. Does "dewed" have a secret crush on "prinik"? Or is such repeated use of the finger command signify something more benign...
...barefoot, as if to accentuate their delicacy and femininity in a dismal bleak world, and also their child-like helplessness in Kastchei's realm. Yet when the princesses are alone, they joke and socialize; true to the human element, they retain hope, never do the characters give in to benign acceptance of their situation's injustice. In the end, when Ivan and the Firebird triumph the audience experiences the captives' exhilaration as they become liberated from Kastchei's oppression and see color for first time...