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Important, worthy projects, to be sure. But do they require a laboratory that costs $30 billion and is only expected to last for fifteen years? It would be much cheaper to launch unmanned satellites into orbit with experiments on board...
...turn our backs on a dream, no matter how distant it is and no matter how briefly we turn away. But the universe has waited for us for fifteen billion years; a couple more won't really matter. One day we will inherit the stars, but for now we should concentrate our efforts upon things that are a bit closer to home...
QUEZON CITY: Fear and Folly Filipinos are bemused by a series of police blunders that allowed a gang of bandits to escape. Fifteen gunmen drove up to a bank and opened fire with assault rifles, pistols and grenade launchers, killing three guards. The robbers emerged from the vault with $200,000 and greeted arriving police with a fusillade that wounded five people, including a policeman. The police pursued the fleeing robbers, but soon ran out of ammunition. A squad car broke down. Officers mistook a passing van for a getaway car and fired on it; inside was a police colonel...
...older, and Dad got worse--although at one point he got on the AA wagon for about a year, long enough for us to see colorings of the lion he once was--and then he left. Got sick of interventions, intrusions into his personal space. Just up the road, fifteen minutes away, but the peculiarity of the basement--that appropriate mixture of darkness, cold and smoke--was gone forever...
...December 30, 1994, in Brook-line, John C. Salvi III, a "Scripture-quoting believer," entered the Planned Parenthood health care clinic and shot and killed Shannon Lowney, a 25-year-old clinic receptionist, and seriously injured three others. Fifteen minutes later, Salvi entered the Preterm Health Services Clinic down the street, where he shot and killed receptionist Leanne Nichols and wounded two others. The reaction? Massachusetts Citizens for Life said: "We are absolutely heartsick at the news of the shootings. We are praying for those persons who have fallen prey to the action of an obviously deranged individual. Such acts...