Word: doomsday
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...would-be friends into siding with the U.S. Russia has already said it might consider sanctions, and China is finally losing patience with the North. Nobody welcomes the prospect of Kim touching off an Asian arms race in which countries within range of North Korean missiles, like Japan, seek doomsday weapons of their...
...young science that could one day make such creatures possible - and worries that it could reduce the planet to a lifeless "gray goo," that in the next couple of months he will convene a nanotech summit at his country residence, Highgrove House in Gloucestershire. But while Prince Charles ponders doomsday scenarios, millions of people already use the products of nanotech research every day without even knowing it. Consumers of Sunsorb brand sunscreen have nanotech to thank for that product's invisible protection against ultraviolet rays. And it's nanotech that makes Pilkington's Activ windows shed dirt in the rain...
...theater - talk stripped down till it edges incoherence. The audience needs an act of severe concentration, and perhaps a peek at the program, to figure out what's going on. But once the plot is deduced, we see that "A Number" has as many S-F twists as a doomsday thriller...
...dealt with the pressure by escaping, spending most of the next 10 years in self-imposed exile in Greece, Italy and the U.S., reading, writing and teaching. He returned to Japan in 1995 after the Kobe earthquake, which destroyed his parent's home, and the sarin-gas attacks by doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo. "I thought 1995 was a turning point for our society," Murakami recalls. "I didn't know if it was good or bad, only that everything had changed. At the same time, it was a turning point for me. I made up my mind that...
...spend from now until Doomsday in a therapist’s office, but if you’re not all there, you aren’t going to heal,” Nesbeda said...