Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WEEKS AGO, A PROSECUTOR IN MUNICH MANAGED, almost casually, to strike a global blow against freedom of expression. Though he is a person of such obscurity that most of the accounts I've read of this incident didn't even mention his name, he has been able to constrict the information flow for some 4 million people in 140 countries...
NEST was formed in 1975 after an extortionist threatened to blow up Boston with a nuclear device unless he was paid $200,000. Since then, NEST has evaluated 110 threats, and mobilized itself to deal with about 30 of them; like the Boston incident, all have been hoaxes. Yet NEST is more than a high-tech SWAT team. At the remote Pajarito site in the Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Laboratory complex in New Mexico, 17 scientists are using technology found on the shelves of Radio Shack and the type of nuclear fuel sold on the black market to construct homemade...
...pointed set of rules aimed at Renaissance's p.c. caste. No. 1 was "No group hugs." Nos. 6 and 7 encouraged the wearing of furs and the use of chlorofluorocarbon sprays. Some arrivals could not take the puckish hint that this was a time for public-policy grinds to blow off steam, but others fell right into the outlaw spirit. "I always smoked when I was pregnant," announced G. Gordon Liddy's wife to a companion. A batch of half-looped Young Turks at the bar cheered as the jukebox played the Eagles' Get Over It, a slam against self...
...REALLY TAKES A WRITER WITH IMAGInation to be able to describe the blow to the current theories of evolution as crossing "a critical threshold." All the phyla of Earth "appear" so suddenly that this is called an "explosion." Darwin himself would have been blown away. But Canadian paleontologist Guy Narbonne absorbs this gigantic problem by saying, "...there also seems to be a non-Darwinian kind of evolution that functions over extremely short time periods--and that's where all the action is." TIME's nonscientific speculation is the height of gullibility. You tell us that after the Cambrian explosion, everything...
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