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...more immediate: I live in India, and have been to Mumbai a couple of times, each time wishing I lived in that exciting city. I have visited most of the places targeted. I have pretended to be a National Security Guard commando—or ‘Black Cat??— during childhood Cops-and-Robbers games. And I was aware of the alarming increase in terrorist strikes across India in recent years...
...Nobody’s got anything as fancy as we have at Harvard: this is the cat??s meow in terms of optical SETI...
...unlikely, Wagner and Sancho do raise the serious question of how much chance is acceptable when it comes to destroying the earth. At some point—not necessarily this point—experimenting with powerful force in biology or physics can become reckless. Kurt Vonnegut, in his novel Cat??s Cradle, which is about the destruction of the Earth by a substance called ice-nine, asks, “What hope can there be for mankind when there are such men…to give such playthings as ice-nine to such short-sighted children as almost...
...narrator appears to be a middle-aged man with a penchant for his own “funny cowboy dance.” But the individual sketches are very much units unto themselves, preventing the book from having the virtuosic scope and insight of a “Cat??s Cradle” (not that it’s trying to be “Cat??s Cradle,” anyway). Handey’s dark and bizarre humor works. In his sketch “Fuzzy Memories,” a collection of individual...
...chapter, all of which are titled by a lesson that derives from the author’s story. These lessons range from self-reflective comments (“I’m Easy”) to advice (“Don’t Come on Your Cat??) to the absurd (“Nine Years is the Exact Right Amount of Time to Be in a Bad Relationship”). The lessons may vary in their pertinence, but when they’re all this entertaining, that hardly seems to matter. One lesson that seems pretty universal...