Word: collisional
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Tim Robbins' grandly ambitious new film Cradle Will Rock, which recreates the collision of art and politics in the Commie-crazy, Depression-addled '30s, is mainstream in all of the best possible ways. It's hard to imagine anyone not getting swept up in the movie's panoramic storytelling, drawn...
The Karmapa's flight caps a year in which the authorities in Beijing are facing growing discontent from religious believers of varied stripe. Besides the challenge represented by the widespread Falun Gong sect, which was banned amid national protests in the summer, Beijing has faced continued resistance from Islamic separatists...
This reaction, while not uncommon, is not realistic given the history of serious collisions, says Jaroff, and the possibility of future events. "We now have a catalog of 200-odd asteroids more than a kilometer across whose trajectories bring them very close to Earth's orbit. A piece of rock...
The force of these grim tidings is tempered by the knowledge that U.S. government agencies have been working alongside the country's most prestigious research facilities to conjure up ways of dealing with these hurtling rocks should an asteroid ever establish itself as a threat. "Once they've identified the...