Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard is Hell on Earth, where nobody will lend you a pencil without asking what's in it for them...
...author alike. History, in the view of Francis Fukuyama, was a Manichaean struggle between ! the forces of light and darkness. The bad guys -- first fascists, now Communists -- have lost, the good guys have triumphed. But if the fight is over, so is the fun. The remainder of life on earth, frets Fukuyama, may be a bit of a bore. If there are no more world-class evils to inspire "daring, courage, imagination, and idealism," we could be reduced to fine-tuning economic prosperity and tinkering with "technical problems" and "environmental concerns...
...when "post-history" produces its first ugly spectacular, whether it is a nuclear war between two backward and strange- thinking countries that never cared much for Karl Marx or Adam Smith, or an ecological disaster that is beyond the micromanagement of the technocrats who Fukuyama predicts will inherit the earth...
...Sept. 18, 1931, a Japanese army lieutenant meticulously wired 42 cubes of yellow blasting powder and buried the load in the earth 5 ft. from railroad tracks north of the Manchurian city of Mukden (now Shenyang). The explosives would throw a lot of dirt but cause little damage to the rail line. After all, the South Manchurian Railroad was Japanese-owned and linked the empire's economic outposts in predominantly Chinese Manchuria. All the army wanted was an "incident...
Activists from the radical conservation group Earth First take to the treetops to protest logging in the nation's few remaining tracts of old-growth woodland...