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Perspective is vital. A year ago, the situation in Somalia was unspeakable. Hundreds died daily of starvation and tens of thousands more were on the brink. Warlords looted donated supplies of food and prevented them from reaching those areas so desperately in need...
...unprecedentedly complex mission go exactly as planned, NASA could regain some credibility. But if history is any guide, it probably won't. Space is a harsh and unforgiving place, where Murphy's Law is paramount. In fact, many of NASA's best public relations successes have come at the brink of failure. Engineers restored 70% of the Galileo probe's function after its main antenna failed to deploy; astronauts grabbed the Intelsat-6 satellite by hand when a less dramatic rescue technique proved useless; astronauts survived an explosion on Apollo 13 that could easily have been fatal...
...many Catholics, increasingly teetering on the brink of agnosticism, disillusionment and dissatisfaction, the pontiff's visit created the opportunity to examine received orthodoxy. For, in spite of a growing schism, the Catholic Church continues to appeal to American youth in unprecedented numbers...
...feel abused, we feel exploited," said John Natale, a small property owner. Natale said that he's heard the phrase, "If I only had a gun..." used seriously by rent control opponents, and he warned, "We're on the brink of someone getting hurt...
When Clinton and his environmentalist sidekick, Al Gore, took office, they were already well aware that America's ecology was in crisis. From the spotted owls and salmon in the Northwest to woodpeckers and salamanders in the Southeast, many species were on the brink of extinction, and the implications were ominous. Says Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, architect of the Administration's natural-resource policy: "This really isn't about just preserving strange species with incomprehensible names. In every single case, that species is the warning light about the decline in productivity of an ecosystem." In the past, the debate...