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...they dutifully smuggle in the lining of a coat. After she is threatened by the Guardians of the Revolution on the street, who berate her for her sneakers and jacket, she locks herself in her bedroom and dances madly to Kids in America. But Satrapi does not neglect the darker side of human adaptation, either. As one corrupt leadership is swapped with another, the hypocrisy trickles down. A neighbor who has always had a spot on her cheek now claims she got it from a bullet at a revolutionary demonstration. Another woman who used to flit round the neighborhood...
...when Richard Gephardt, A truly decent man, seems the embodiment of all that is clunky about the Democratic Party. His 1988 presidential campaign was militantly dismal. At one point, he criticized Ronald Reagan's 1984 "Morning in America" advertising theme: "It's closer to midnight," Gephardt insisted, "and getting darker all the time." This is another inveterate Democratic problem: every silver lining comes equipped not just with a cloud, but often with a full-fledged hurricane and heavy coastal flooding. Who would want to spend four years with such spoilsports whining away on TVs in the kitchens and family rooms...
...time watching TV and now--$10,000 worth of equipment later--is no longer chained to his remote. There are Clark and Deb Cheney, who sold their home in a busy part of Nebraska and moved to the more remote town of Plattsmouth simply because the night sky is darker there...
...least ajar, to concepts that now seem on the wild, speculative fringe of possibility. And second, we should remember that while new discoveries will offer marvelous prospects, they will also have a dark side. Some fear that nanotechnology could prove to be one of the 21st century's darker technologies, as potentially disruptive and dangerous as nuclear weapons. Nanotechnology is just one of a suite of advances - including biotechnology, genetics and robotics - about which some ethicists, politicians, consumer watchdogs and even a few scientists are concerned. They fear that these developments may have spin-offs so dangerous that, when...
...four instruments: the kwaenggari (the lead instrument, small and loud), the janggo (hourglass-shaped, with ornamental sticks on either side), the buk (a big round drum that provides the bass beat) and the jing (a gong that, Ahn says, “rounds out the beats with a deeper, darker sound?...