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...blown-up embassy, the ruined barracks, the ship with a blackened hole at the waterline. This time the first plane striking the first tower acted as a shill. It alerted the media, brought cameras to the scene so that they might be set up to record the vivid surreal bloom of the second strike (?Am I seeing this??), and then?could they be such engineering geniuses, so deft at demolition??the catastrophic collapse of the two towers, one after the other, and a sequence of panic in the streets that might have been shot for a remake...
...blown-up embassy, the ruined barracks, the ship with a blackened hole at the waterline. This time the first plane striking the first tower acted as a shill. It alerted the media, brought cameras to the scene so that they might be set up to record the vivid surreal bloom of the second strike ("Am I seeing this?"), and then?could they be such engineering geniuses, so deft at demolition? - the catastrophic collapse of the two towers, one after the other, and a sequence of panic in the streets that might have been shot for a remake...
...year was 1988, and the U.S. AIDS epidemic was in full bloom. Angry homosexual groups were blaming the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for the glacial pace of government research, drug testing and drug approval. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the agency since 1984, was singled out for attack, branded a "Nazi" and a "murderer," and hanged in effigy...
...finding in the distribution of organisms whose fossilized remains are so vanishingly small that most are not visible to the naked eye. Under a microscope, Knoll notes, the cellular architecture of these ancient life-forms looks remarkably similar to that of modern algae. But unlike their contemporary kin, which bloom all along the continental shelves, these marine algae never strayed far from the shallows...
...Bloom reportedly warned Xu in the letter that he would “not receive the continued support of the School for you or your research if you persist in exercising independent action” and that his continued efforts to silence critics would lead to “appropriate sanctions...