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...This futurist lived long enough to serenely contemplate his own future, or lack of it. "It would be nice to look forward to going to a Great Sci-Fi Convention in the Sky when I expire," he wrote. "I am vaguely contemplating opting for a cryogenic comeback but in case I don't become a human people-cicle, I, like Isaac Asimov and other thinkers I admire, don't expect to wake up in some spirit realm of an afterlife. I've been a secular humanist since I was 15, long before the term was invented, and nothing since...
...often looks like a crowd has intentionally trampled the victims. But what usually happens is that the people in the rear of a crowd do not know that someone in front has fallen. They still have room to move, unlike the people in front, so they continue to press forward. The compounding pressure can bend steel like it's made of rubber. "It only takes five people to push against one to break a rib, collapse a lung or smash a child's head," says Still. Most stampede victims (including the Wal-Mart worker) die of asphyxiation - they literally cannot...
...outdoor 2000 Pearl Jam concert in Denmark, nine people were killed when the fans in back surged forward - despite band members' pleas to step back...
...Ariana Paulson, chair of the Yale Graduate Employees and Students Organization, said she looked forward to the Obama administration’s labor-friendly stance and a “new surge of excitement [for unionization] after a bunch of pretty hard years...
...fresh biscuits she had made for him that morning. “Come in, my love!” she called.It was Felicity.“Oh look,” Frederick’s wife sneered. “A strumpet with crumpets.”Felicity rushed forward, grabbed the basket of biscuits, and started throwing them at Roxanna. Her aim was impressive. “Harlot!” she spat out, as each biscuit thunked against Roxanna’s heaving bosom. “Hussy!” Running out of biscuits, Felicity reached...