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...Americans who on Aug. 6, 1945, boarded the B-29 bomber with the name Enola Gay painted on its nose would forget little about that long day. They remembered staying up through the night and eating breakfast long before dawn. Theodore (Dutch) Van Kirk had pineapple fritters. "I love the damn things," Van Kirk, 84, says today from his home in Stone Mountain, Ga. "I'll never forget the pineapple damn fritters." The Enola Gay left Tinian, in the Marianas chain, at 2:45 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive over Hiroshima, a city at the south...
...would risk annihilation by actually launching a nuke in anger. More terrifying is the possibility that malefactors operating without such restraints--such as the suicidal jihadists of al-Qaeda--might acquire atomic materials. It is the global terrorist threat that has made this the least predictable moment since the dawn of the nuclear age. Says Sam Nunn, the Democratic ex-Senator: "The terrorist threat is, to me, the most likely use of a nuclear weapon...
...Timlin was solid in saving that night?s game, and I got a good night?s sleep before taking a jog at dawn through the old neighborhoods-West Chelmsford, where I?d played Wiffle ball, back towards the center of town, where I?d played sandlot and then Little League. So many Red Son bumper stickers on the cars in the driveways these days, so many Sox pennants and flags hanging on the porches...
...anthracite, nothing to burn." Greenlaw's poems are dreams of travel and longing for home. They have the clarity and purity one associates with cold air - which makes her rare outbursts of joy and heat and light all the more dazzling. Overlord By Jorie Graham "This morning before dawn no stars I try again." In Overlord - the title comes from the Allied code name for D-day - we find Graham deep in prayer, to whom and for what she isn't sure. But her poems, which mix autobiography and World War II documentary, struggle to come to terms with...
...agrees with Fordham University Sociologist John M. Martin that every act of vandalism carries a heavy freight of motivation and even logic-though scanalized and law-abiding citizens are not likely to appreciate either. As a classic example, the Luddites who smashed the new textile machines at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution were venting their rage on a new technology that threatened their handicraft jobs...