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...Deputy Party Chairman Deng Xiaoping, China's most powerful leader, who had permitted a modicum of dissent in the late 1970s, much as Mao had launched his shortlived "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom" movement in 1957. Now Deng too has had second thoughts about the first faint burgeonings of freedom he inspired. Lately Deng has complained that the relative relaxation of recent years has led to a host of "unhealthy tendencies," most notably in literature and art. The press has referred darkly to the emergence of an artistic "counterculture" and complained of stories and plays that "propagate pessimism, nihilism...
...when astronomers talk about objects as strange and remote as quasars, about cosmic enigmas like black holes and the faint radio noises that may be an echo of the creation, an ordinary planet, even the second largest in the sun's family, hardly seems likely to awe or surprise. Yet, remarkably, Saturn still has that power, as the Voyager 1 spacecraft so dramatically showed last November. Swooping within 78,000 miles of the luminous ringed sphere, the little robot sent back a collection of full-color images as dazzling as any ever received from deep space...
...should not only show the formation and disintegration of the spokes during each rotation but also help explain what forces are acting on them. One theory: the spokes are in fact composed of dustlike particles lifted out of the thin ring plane by electrostatic forces perhaps created by the faint light of the distant...
...will to endure is strong, almost maniacal. Sands, a cold, sullen man, turned on his bedside radio and listened with a faint smirk to news broadcasts of his own final hours. Even when the end is not far off, there are some lighter moments. Only days before he died, Kevin Lynch asked his family to bring him some cigars. He lay there, his body emaciated, his voice a whisper, blowing smoke toward the ceiling. The mother and girlfriend of Kieran Doherty, 25, were lifting his shrunken body for a rubdown when he almost slid from the bed; the prisoner kidded...
...lifetime. I went from weighing 188 Ibs. to 150 Ibs. The first time I did it, I was into heroin, so I cooked it up and shot it into a vein. A few minutes later my whole body was going cold. It felt like I was going to faint or was getting seasick. The whole world was going gray, everybody in the room getting real distant. I was going limp and lifeless, and the only thing I could think about was to concentrate on my breathing...