Word: doomsday
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...film ends, and Jeff returns into the screening room. I mention the doomsday rhetoric and he laughs it off. He invites me and Allen to return to the church. Looking at me, he describes how his IQ has gone up since becoming a Scientologist (a claim I heard repeated by several other adherents). He smiles...
...years ago. Unlike during the Cold War, when we felt the specter of atomic warfare breathing down our backs every day and marshaled our country’s whole attention to fight it, today we live in an insulated world where Dr. Strangelove’s doomsday scenario seems like fiction. Although we hear of dirty bombs and nuclear programs, and polls have shown that most Americans fear a nuclear attack, there is not nearly the same level of pressure to deal with the situation immediately. That must change because the present is just as disconcerting as the past...
These moderates worked together to avert a doomsday scenario and save the filibuster because they recognized that the filibuster is needed to preserve the deliberative nature of the Senate; the filibuster rewards working across party lines, encourages politicians to reach out and try to convince the other side, and prevents a slim majority from running roughshod over the minority party...
...tiny country, largely dependent on tourism, struggles to relaunch its tourism industry after the devastating tsunami of Dec. 26. The verifiable scientific knowledge on the effects of a rise in sea level is scanty. To the contrary, there is a school of thought that believes the sea-level rise doomsday scenario is a storm in a teacup. Sim I. Mohamed Secretary General Maldives Association of Tourism Industry Mal?, the Maldives...
...doomsday scenario, outlined most alarmingly in the recent book The Long Emergency, by James Howard Kuntsler, goes like this: gasoline will soon get so expensive that most Americans simply won't be able to afford it. Suburbs, strip malls, interstate highways, the infrastructure of the modern U.S. economy just won't work anymore without cheap oil, and the U.S. will have to reinvent itself or risk falling into decay. That dire prophecy, though, is really all about timing. Georgia Tech's Shelton, an engineering professor and oil-futures expert, says the extent of the economic damage depends on how fast...