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...asteroid," Jaroff says, "scientists can predict years, even decades ahead of time whether it will intersect the Earth's orbit at a moment when the Earth is there." And should scientists discover such a scenario looming on the horizon, Jaroff says there are many ways to engage, deflect or destroy the giant rocks, including the controlled use of nuclear bombs, whose blasts could nudge the asteroids off their collision course with Earth. While all this research costs a taxpayers pretty penny, Jaroff points out the money is really pretty insignificant, especially when "the alternative is total annihilation...
...believes in the human capacity to change and wages Satyagraha against the oppressor, not to destroy him but to transform him, that he cease his oppression and join the oppressed in the pursuit of Truth...
...empire. Batu would command armies that struck deep into Russia and swept through Poland into Germany, Hungary and the Balkans. Kublai Khan, who would later build his stately pleasure dome in the city of Shangtu (Coleridge's Xanadu), conquered southern China and Burma. His brother Hulegu would not only destroy Baghdad but also devastate its irrigation network. Mesopotamia has never fully recovered...
...toll on civilians has been devastating, but Moscow seems not to care. One of Yermolov's tactics was to destroy any village whose inhabitants resisted, as an example. General Troshev, commanding the eastern sector, takes the same approach. No one knows how many civilians have died, especially in Grozny where the blunt force of artillery, aircraft and missile batteries has been indiscriminate...
...kids to safety, without welling up with tears. By the end of November, she still had not gone back to the campus. Every time she had been inside the school, she was walking with Dave or going to pick him up or watch him coach. Returning, she feared, would destroy all those positive memories. But last week was the opening game for the girls' basketball team, which Dave had coached. The girls from the team have regularly stopped by Linda's house with gifts or just to talk and keep her company. So Linda decided to support the girls...