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Ebullience does not mean blindness. Asimov is alarmed by overpopulation, with its insatiable demand for natural resources. He is not sanguine about the medical establishment's inability to find a cure for AIDS: "It may just burn itself out the way the bubonic plague did in the London of 1665. But this tragic disease moves much more slowly. It might take a century to disappear." And wars and weapons continually remind him about the fragility of Spaceship Earth. But in the Asimovian view, that fragility is an echo of his personal history. He was felled by a heart attack...
...there are some lesser talents who have not been mentioned in this piece who might take a cue and find a new way of working for a living. As the indefatigable Neil Young once suggested, "It's better to burn out than to fade away...
...count' em--plays that are filling Harvard stages this weekend and next. For the most part, the selection is a stampede of warhorses that you've probably seen before. Still, there should be entertainment aplenty to take your mind off of the inevitable December stress--provided you don't burn yourself out rushing from play to play...
...motionless as they listened to witnesses describe a violent clash between ethnic Armenians and ethnic Azerbaijanis that left 32 dead and 400 wounded in the Azerbaijani port city of Sumgait last February. Struggling to hold back tears, an aging Armenian woman described how she had watched an Azerbaijani mob burn a man to death in his automobile. A Russian doctor described the head < wounds he had found on the corpse of a man beaten to death with lead pipes...
...each state using nuclear power must store their low-level wastes within the state at taxpayers' expense. Pilgrim and Yankee Rowe produce most of the low-level waste in this state. Because nuclear power depends on materials that stay radioactive for many years, the plants--which will eventually burn out anyway--will continue to cost taxpayers money long after they close. Closing them now would help reduce those costs. The Mass. Executive Office of Energy estimates that residents can save themselves $1.5 billion over the next 20 years by permanently closing Pilgrim alone...