Word: decays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time he knew only from the decade's recycled pop culture. Peggy Sue's trip is spookier. She is literally reviving the ghosts of memory, as when she picks up a 1960 telephone and hears the voice of her "dead" grandmother. She knows what lies ahead: death and decay for the family she once took for granted, compromise and disillusion for herself and Charlie...
Most of the problems of present-day Africa, Mazrui suggests, can be traced to Western interlopers: from the missionaries and slave traders of early days, through the European colonialists who carved up the continent with arbitrary national borders, to capitalists who have plundered its natural resources, "often bequeathing decay rather than development." The series contains no on-camera interviews, just Mazrui's narration set against striking shots of African life and landscapes. The rhetoric is sometimes excessive ("the collective burial of a people," "Western sharks in search of a pound of flesh"). And Mazrui's approach can be annoyingly simplistic...
...PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL decay which substance abuse induces is not just spreading inward from the outer fringes of society, as Reagan would have it. Rather, the decay is also at the core of American society and spreads outward as normal and "productive" Americans regularly consume large amounts of alcohol. Yet Reagan does not attack alcohol abuse with the same gusto as drug abuse...
...also made "an incredible find" -- up to 19 distinct layers of stumps. "Each layer is a forest that developed, lived for many centuries and was overtaken by floods of sediments that killed the roots," he says. "They must have been killed off relatively quickly for the roots not to decay, and buried deeply enough to exclude oxygen but not so deeply as to turn them into coal. That process repeated and repeated itself over several hundreds of thousands of years...
Four University theologians yesterday discussed how Western theological traditions can serve the human race in an age when such threats as nuclear war and environmental decay fill many with despair...