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Market pressures and the demands of the Russian economy may eventually make the route financially viable. That is a moment many environmentalists dread. Tankers are likely to be the chief users of the route, and oil spills could do unimaginable harm to arctic ecosystems. Dorothy Childers of Greenpeace points out that the sea route follows the easiest path through the polar ice, the same path taken by migratory birds and marine mammals. Will development be worth the risk...
...that is: without money or insurance, none of the area's private clinics will see her. As a nurse inspected her son's swollen lymph nodes and scheduled a blood test, Teodora allowed that she knew enough of Los Angeles County's latest disaster--the fiscal one--to dread its consequences. "If the hospital weren't here," she said, "I don't know what I'd do. I don't know where...
...Soviet Union were constantly haunted by fear that nuclear war would start if one side called a bluff that turned out to be no bluff. That dread died with the dissolution of the U.S.S.R.--but neither the U.S. nor Japan is going to disappear as an economic superpower...
Cambridge, especially Harvard Square, is actually kind of fun in the summer, Survivors of previous hot months here will agree that there's nothing to dread--in fact, there's a lot to enjoy...
There are two responses one could have to the fact that human beings are nothing but the accidental product of a mindless algorithmic process. The first is the path of reluctance, feat, even dread; this has been the main response of Western arts and letters since Darwin, and its products have ranged from the sentimental agnosticism of Matthew Arnold to the brutal existentialism of Sartre. The second is the path of gleeful Philistinism, which glories in exposing the rubes like Plato, Aquinas and Kant whose faith in human divnity has been overthrown by the glittering progress of Science...