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...winter light is already dim, and in a Manhattan cafe the blond girl is squirming in her seat, dying for a smoke. The cigarette machine is broken. "This is like a joke," she says, annoyed, and leaves her plate of eggs Benedict to bum a Marlboro from one of the other diners. Smoking happily at last, she gives a quick account of herself, sounding bored beyond her years. She dropped out of high school four years ago, at 15, and has no job and no firm idea of what she will do next. She likes to stay up until...
Ford is undoubtedly biased against the nuclear power program. As a past executive director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, he takes a dim view of those willing to exploit nuclear power without being fully aware of its dangers. Still, Ford's evidence, culled from thousands of pages of A.E.C. documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, is overwhelming. It is also frightening...
With these commands, Rob can search through the necklace of satellites that rings the earth and pick up any one of 150 TV channels. He can also dial the telephone, adjust the angle of his bed, dim the lights, dictate letters, play video games and write computer programs on the Carnegie-Mellon University computer network in nearby Pittsburgh. Next January he will start taking college-level courses by satellite...
...which my wife insists I wear lest she be widowed. That's part of the fun, isn't it, wearing all that strange gear. It's like being part of a carnival or festival or something." He especially enjoys blinking his flashlight at oncoming cars to remind drivers to dim their headlights...
...predatory and implacable that the Western democracies believed their only hope was to band together and deter further Soviet expansionism. The idea of actively coaxing the U.S.S.R. toward a more humane social order seemed out of the question. The author of the containment doctrine, George Kennan, held out the dim hope that if the Soviet aggressive drive were held in check, perhaps the regime might mellow. But that would happen only very gradually. Because of the internal dynamics of the Soviet Union, Kennan argued, American influence on that country's evolution could only be oblique and passive...