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...Communists had reason to celebrate. In the past two decades, the Wall has helped stem the mass exodus that saw East Germany lose 3.6 million people between 1945 and the dawn of Aug. 13, 1961. Since then fewer than 200,000 have escaped. Some of the 72 who failed are remembered by small, weather-worn crosses that mark the sites along the Wall where they were killed in the attempt...
...brethren broadened it to include other "harsh instruments." And in 1969, when students finally got sick enough of the Establishment/liberal hypocrisy that allowed ROTC to stay on campus training bomber pilots, they took over the main administration building. Not only did Harvard officials roust them in a bloody pre-dawn bust, the also battled each other to see who could mouth the most pomposities about "academic freedom" and "free and open scholarly debate." Less than a year later, the Faculty followed their lead, passing the "Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities" and setting up a commission to enforce...
...where subtle and carefully controlled variations in light and water temperature induce breeding. Pregnant females-each producing 150,000 to 200,000 eggs-are transferred by hand to separate hatching tanks, where an average of 90,000 eggs survive to become adolescent shrimp. After 17 days, always just around dawn to avoid damage by sunlight, the young shrimp are transferred to maturation ponds. There, with technicians and the anxious farmers standing by, they grow to adults...
...Argentina, where he conducted more than 70 interviews with businessmen, newspaper editors, sociologists, rabbis and government officials. Says McWhirter: "Almost no one passing through Buenos Aires would think there was anything wrong there - the streets are peaceful, the restaurants full, and the tango clubs are still jammed until dawn. It is amazing how ordinary and normal some societies appear even when they are going through events that are, in fact, all but tearing them apart...
When the night was young, the King contemplated plunder At dawn, his body, head and crown were all asunder. -Iranian poem describing the assassination of Nader Shah, an 18th century king...