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...same, don't expect that by the end of this book you'll be vouchsafed a clear picture of just what those forces are. Pynchon doesn't do closure. What he does, and brilliantly, is open windows onto a universe where we're all in custody, but we're none of us sure who put on the cuffs...
...every business can be special," says J.D. Foster, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington. "When you start identifying federal programs to prop up every conceivable industry that's complaining of economic hard times, you end up with a situation in which everybody is supporting everybody- which means nobody is being supported...
...could be falling behind. "This bill does nothing to drive the installation of new renewable-energy for the next several years," says Craig Mataczynski, the president of the Colorado-based clean-energy company Res Americas. "If we don't do something to drive this industry here, we could end up in second place to a country like China...
...film, many a desert-island castaway has put a message in a bottle and cast it out to sea, hoping it would someday reach land. Sorry, all you modern-day Robinson Crusoes, try that with a plastic bottle in real life, and your message will probably end up in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, bobbing in a floating collection of trash known as the Plastic Vortex. It's an accumulation of plastic debris swept into the Pacific - whether directly from beaches or flowing out of rivers - and carried by equatorial currents into a swirling pattern to one spot between...
...wasn't always this way. In the 1970s, burnished by a romanticized image of its members as revolutionaries fighting Francisco Franco's authoritarian regime, ETA assassinated Luis Carrero Blanco, the Prime Minister whom Franco had picked to succeed him. By the end of the decade, it had killed hundreds more people. And in the 1980s, the clandestine organization carried out a series of highly visible attacks: a car bomb parked at a Barcelona department store in 1987 left 21 dead; another, in 1986, exploded as a convoy of civil guards passed, killing...