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...often, these supposedly populist voter initiatives are actually pushed by a particular special interest group. Wealthy individuals or issue advocacy organizations start a "grassroots" movement for their pet cause, dumping tons of money into the bottomless pit of campaigning. As initiatives have taken on new prominence, a cottage industry of campaign consultants, advertising firms and signature gathering groups has arisen. In 1998, California voters saw the most expensive initiative fight ever over a proposal to allow casinos on Indian reservations. Indian groups spent a lot of money pushing the idea, while Las Vegas casinos (which draw a lot of Californians...
Alzheimer's disease, when the lights go out to the point that you don't recognize your own family, is one of the cruelest afflictions, as much for the once-loved ones as for the oblivious victims. There is no cure, and little treatment beyond a bottomless well of patience. But what if, as a healthy young person, you were told for certain that Alzheimer's was going to strike you down in your 40s or 50s? Would that foreknowledge be insufferable? Not according to José Luis Molinuevo, who this month delivered just that information to some 20 people...
Fascinating character study episode in which Teela falls into the bottomless abyss beneath Castle Grayskull and we discover that the abyss supplies the power...
...poor health, he was enormously fortunate in those with whom he surrounded himself. He found patrons, particularly businessman Eusebi Güell, who rarely interfered with his vision. Given that Gaudí was given to changing his designs over and over during the building process, they needed to have bottomless pockets. Gaudí was also backed by superb Catalan craftsmen, particularly in stone and iron, and his studio included men both loyal and brilliant in their own right. One, the largely unrecognized Josep Jujol, is described by Van Hensbergen as one of architecture's "greatest creative geniuses...
...Mount Everest. Weihenmayer became the first sightless person to reach the 29,035-ft. (8,850-m) summit. A good athlete, he turned to climbing after losing his sight as a young teenager. The trek required him, with the help of his team, to negotiate ladder bridges over bottomless crevices and ascend a peak that kills even the most able mountaineers...