Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...future is all too familiar to many meteorologists. To some, it makes the drought that is crippling the nation's midsection seem an ominous harbinger of things to come. Because of the greenhouse effect, a process by which natural and man-made gases trap solar heat in the earth's atmosphere, the gradual warming of the globe is inevitable, in the view of many scientists. But until now, most had cautiously avoided definitive statements about precisely when such an effect might take place...
...title story, a dreamy old sage steps out of his time machine with a typically Bradburian message: Utopia lies a century ahead. In fact, the traveler has never ventured farther than his laboratory. He fakes his trips in order to provide the earth with its most precious commodity: hope...
...question of whether to Spike or not to Spike puts Government antidrug crusaders, environmentalists and corporate America in an awkward three-way tug-of-war. Last week Sandra Marquardt of the environmental group Greenpeace accused the State Department of a "scorched-earth tactic that threatens to wipe out most plant life in the region for five years or more." Scientists for the Environmental Protection Agency say Tebuthiuron can harm useful vegetation if it leaches into groundwater. Ecologists contend that it would be difficult for farmers to grow crops after the coca has been destroyed. They point out that Spike...
...sake. A sitting Governor like Dukakis can never be nominated because he would be unable to devote enough time to contest Iowa. The Bush campaign is a balloon kept aloft by a thin membrane of inevitability, so the prick of a single bad defeat will send it sputtering to earth. And that fanciful dream of reporters everywhere: with so many candidates in both parties, at least one of the races is certain to go all the way to a deadline-defying finish at the convention...
...embodies the state, and we give him all the accoutrements: a plane, a fanfare, a mountain retreat. Even the rowdy White House press corps stands up when he enters the room. He symbolizes the power of the state, and it happens that his is the most powerful state on earth. Which makes him, so goes the syllogism, the most powerful man on earth...