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...minute and then recovered." Heated by the incoming blast of radiation, the upper fringe of the atmosphere expanded farther into space. Low-orbiting satellites, encountering that fringe and running into increasing drag, slowed and dropped into still lower orbits. A secret Defense Department satellite began a premature and fatal tumble, and the tracking system that keeps exact tabs on some 19,000 objects in earth orbit briefly lost track of 11,000 of them. Solar Max descended by as much as half a mile in a single day, almost certainly hastening its demise...
...over the lists of hundreds of names Stalin would okay for execution, one by one, before the working day ended. Stalin was fond of lavishing kindness on his friends, even as he meticulously planned their arrests, torture, trials and death. When one high official, I.A. . Akulov, received a near fatal concussion while skating, Stalin rushed foreign doctors to the U.S.S.R. to treat him. As soon as the skater recovered, Stalin had him shot...
...court in Shanghai accused three people of burning a train that ran over a human barricade, and quickly sentenced them to death. The harsh actions open the door to a wave of execution orders. Such a move would be tragic for China's psychic well-being and potentially fatal for its economic health, and it was unthinkable just a few weeks ago. But if China's leaders can get away with rewriting so recent a past, what is to stop them from scripting any future they choose...
Knowing something is not the same as watching it happen. There is nothing new in the proposition that Marxism is riven with contradictions as fatal to the system as they are brutal to its subjects. For decades critics of Communism have been saying that the party has no legitimacy; that its claims of representation are a tattered veil for its true function of repression; that for all their apparent obedience, passivity and discipline, many or even most of the populace are not just unhappy but deeply angry and increasingly overt in their defiance...
...news of the assault comes less than two months after the entire nation was shocked by the gang rape and near fatal beating of a white jogger in New York City's Central Park, allegedly by six black and Hispanic youths. Taken together, the two cases brutally demonstrate that sexual violence by adolescents transcends racial and class lines. Such attacks are now increasingly common across the U.S. According to the FBI, the number of arrests for rape committed by boys 18 years old or younger rose by 14.6% between...