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...long-run loser, though, may well be Mayor Bafia. Sensing the ugly mood of the mountain men, he transferred his teen-age daughter from the local school to one in far-off Warsaw. When he ventures out of his office nowadays, a bodyguard is always at his side...
...believe in. The book clears him of one notable charge: by examining Rumanian, Russian, German and French folklore of the 15th century, in which Dracula figures vividly, it establishes that he was not a vampire. That was Bram Stoker's libel; needing a monstrous name and a far-off place for his fantasy, he chose Dracula and Transylvania. The real Dracula, son of Dracul (the name means dragon), was a Christian prince and mass murderer who lived in what is now Rumania, at the edge of the Turkish empire, from 1430 or '31 to 1476. He was known...
Thousands of people turned out to see President Chester A. Arthur walk from New York to Brooklyn. McCullough gives the day a chapter of its own, and it deserves it, not only as an epic story's culmination, but as the story of a more optimistic age. Presidents were far-off heroes, almost royalty (even when, like Arthur, they were political hacks), and progress, however tarnished, meant the Bridge and not the Automated Battlefield. The scene is not only fascinating history, it is also great and bittersweet fun, reminding us of a time when we were less betrayed...
...indicate that the planet is now located in the Constellation Cassiopeia, which is cluttered with so many stars that the planet would be hard to find. Nonetheless, Brady is hopeful that a sharp-eyed astronomer, scanning photographic plates, will some day detect a dim pinpoint of light reflected from far-off Planet...
...designed to be less easily expelled and less likely to cause cramps than present models. Some women believe that men should take responsibility for birth control. The old-fashioned condom is considered a bother and a distraction by many couples, however, and the male Pill is only a far-off possibility...