Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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One could hardly watch the disaster unfold without wondering just how much more pain a place could bear. In a city scorned because it has no seasons, Los Angeles residents now say there are four: riots, earthquakes, fire and floods. The sturdy, aerobic city of dreams is out of breath...
This is hardly the worst quake in California's history, but it might turn out to be the most important. Years from today, when historians mine its lessons, the Northridge earthquake may be recalled as a natural and bureaucratic disaster that tested the city's spirit, threatened hopes of economic...
THE DEBATE IN THE CHURCHES. So much lively spiritual activity might come as a welcome sign to mainline churches, whose memberships have dwindled over the years. Some see the movement among conservative Christians as a backlash against secular society. "Angels are reassurance that the supernatural and the realm of God...
Most devotees of angels don't pretend to have found a way to confound Providence and repel disaster. They do, however, suggest that the very idea of angels seems to act as a means of grace. In Los Angeles, artist Jill D'Agnenica has been scattering angels all across the...
But NASA's failures have been more than occasional. While it was once an aggressive, creative engineering shop, it has grown into a bloated bureaucracy, as concerned with keeping itself afloat as with serving the nation. This weakness was identified in the aftermath of the Challenger disaster, but as a...