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...Chen, outgunned and outnumbered? But then I recalled the words that novelist Lu Xun wrote 85 years ago at the end of his short story My Old Home: "Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made." A pebble cast in the water may seem insignificant, but it creates ripples. Some ripples become waves, and some waves become tsunamis. Paul Lai Longwood, Florida...
...years, of a girl's skeleton-thought to be the oldest remains ever found of a child-recently unearthed in Ethiopia 150,000 Estimated number of years after the death of the child, nicknamed Lucy's Baby, that Lucy, the most famous primitive human specimen, walked the earth...
...Thanks for the reminder that earth is but a small grain of sand on the beach when compared with the size of the known universe. I don't think people give much thought to how insignificant we are in that respect. I was intrigued by the scientific community's fascinating discoveries of what happened after the Big Bang. I'm staying tuned. Vincent M. Carini Lyndhurst, New Jersey...
...Nation That Fell To Earth" was helpfully provocative. Ferguson reminded us that geopolitical landscapes evolve through the interaction of many seemingly unrelated factors. Although it is impossible to predict the ultimate influence of 9/11 on the balance of international power, the article reminded us that if the U.S. is to remain politically and economically strong, it must focus on more than fighting global terrorism. My only disappointment with Ferguson's article was in his dismissal of the problem of climate change. Global warming has the potential to reshape the geopolitical landscape and cannot be ignored...
...Estimated number of years after the death of the child, nicknamed Lucy's Baby, that Lucy, the most famous primitive human specimen, walked the earth...