Word: cold
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...course, Yeltsin is just one man. If he's having a tough time of it, just imagine the Russian people. Many are unemployed, starving and really cold. Here at Harvard, at least we can count on dining services to keep us well nourished...
...Know It (or TEOTWAWKI, the acronym in use on some Internet gloomsites). Apocalyptic fantasies, which have always been freely available in an atomic-age Christian culture, are about to reach another climax. Beyond the obvious reason that the year 2000 is at hand, there's the end of the cold war, which threatened for a while to deprive us of the sheer glamour of imagined annihilation. Even Hollywood has had to resort lately to wayward asteroids, space invaders and Godzilla as a way to provide that strangely agreeable image, civilization getting wrecked. "Yeah," we tell ourselves, as the space rock/laser...
...back-to-the-landers and civil defense buffs left in the lurch by the end of the cold war, Y2K is a reaffirmation, a renaissance. Ten years ago, before the Soviet army sold off its watches and medals to U.S. novelty shops, Christopher Rudy set out from Ohio for Montana in an old school bus loaded with provisions. Like hundreds of other members of the Church Universal and Triumphant, a New Age sect based in Corwin Springs, Rudy had been called on to prepare for an unspecified Armageddon. It never came, but the scores of underground shelters dug in anticipation...
...politicians are scrambling to come up with any proposal that will prompt people to take the financial responsibilities of retirement into their own hands. The Roth proposal may help some, but since the plan obviously benefits those who have money to begin with, it still leaves out in the cold those who can't afford to save. Dealing with that portion of the population remains the $64 question that everyone promises to answer -- later...
James Watson and Francis Crick won a Nobel Prize for Medicine for their 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA. Watson was the first director of the Human Genome Project; he now serves as president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory