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...systems such as oxygen supplies, ejection seats, fire-suppression systems and armor aren't needed. The nimbleness and speed of today's fighters aren't limited by weak engines or fuselage stress limits but by the human body's inability to withstand high G-forces, a problem that would disappear in a pilotless plane...
...Thus it is now possible to purchase youth in bottles of a hundred different shapes and sizes. We can artificially make our skin look tighter, zap signs of aging out of existence and cause our gray hair to disappear or our missing hair reappear. For science-fictionally inclined, even a rudimentary form of cryonics has become a reality...
...starts to get up, stretch and prepare for bed. Some will come back with sleeping bags to wait out the night, others will be back in another two, four or six hours. They say goodnight to the cop outside, displaying conduct becoming of Harvard students to the last, and disappear back into the night...
...obvious, it needs to be pointed out. Drugs to combat AIDS are not the only ones that are artificially expensive: marijuana, cocaine and heroin are also costly. Galeano quotes a former head of the New York City police narcotics squad: “If imported cocaine were to disappear, in two months it would be replaced by synthetic drugs.” Galeano persuasively argues that the drug war has had little effect on illegal drugs besides unnaturally inflating their prices...
...true death penalty for Timothy McVeigh and his kind would be quite different. The killers would not be killed. Upon conviction, they would be made to disappear, in the media sense: technically alive, but media-dead, allowed no contact with the outside, no interviews with anyone, ever, no books written about them, no prison manifestoes. The killers would be buried alive, would die in the mind of the world - a terrible suffocation...