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...look up Edmund Morris's description (in "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt) of the winter of 1886-87, which settlers called the Winter of the Blue Snow. At the end of January - the Dakota Indians' "Moon of Cold-Exploding Trees" - there came banging down the worst storm in frontier history: "Children wandering out of doors froze to death within minutes... Women in isolated ranches went mad; men shot themselves and each other. Many cattle exposed on the prairie were too weak to withstand the gale: They simply blew over and died. Others kept their footing, until their hoofs were locked...
...technology wonderful? If there's one thing the Internet has done for us, it's create a brave new legal frontier. Mix high expectations, intellectual property, untested technologies, about 500 million people and lots and lots of money, and you're going to get some very interesting lawsuits. Here's a quick roundup of what's pending in the Internet's legal docket...
...Final frontier? U.S.S. Enterprise...
Which shapes represent the fundamental structures in our universe? On this point, string theorists are currently clueless. For the world conjured into existence by M theory is so exotic that scientists are being forced to work not just at the frontier of physics but at the frontier of mathematics as well. Indeed, it may be that they lack some absolutely essential tool and will have to develop it, just as Isaac Newton was pushed by his investigations of the laws of motion to develop the calculus. As if that weren't hard enough, there is yet another major impediment...
...calling on London for Indian independence "before dawn, if it could be had." He and the Congress leaders were arrested and jailed. Huge demonstrations soon flared into rioting and revolt. Mobs attacked any symbol of British power, and the disorder cut off British communications to its armies at the frontier. Government forces struck back hard, and nearly 1,000 Indians were killed before the uprising flamed out. Gandhi was finally freed on May 5, 1944. He had spent 2,338 days of his 74 years imprisoned...