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...despite the gloom and doom, science fiction also displays an optimistic view of humanity. Arthur C. Clarke in particular created many utopian societies that ceased to view individuals based on race, religion, or nationality and instead regarded all as members of a shared human species. Clarke believed that peace could emerge if the same energies that result in war and genocide were channeled into space exploration and the eventual colonization of new worlds...
...many ways Karrada perfectly captures the new Baghdad: hope on one street and gloom on another. This is an improvement from a year ago, when often there seemed no hope at all - but much of the city remains enveloped in darkness, literal and metaphorical, that can't be hidden behind painted walls...
...prejudices. The movie tells the tale of Philippe Abrams, a manager in France's postal system whose efforts to finagle a transfer to the sunny Riviera go wildly wrong. His bosses punish him by sending him instead to the Nord Pas de Calais, warning him of its reputed cold, gloom, incessant rain, and expanses of flat, barren land pocked by slag heaps, abandoned mines, and derelict factories. Just as dismal, he is told, are the region's residents: beer-guzzling, perpetually-unemployed louts who never saw anything deep-fried they didn't love; who pack large, allegedly inbred families into...
...greenhouse gases that cause global warming." China may well have surpassed the U.S., but it is far from proven that greenhouse gases cause global warming. Numerous eminent scientists dispute the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in this regard. Rather than side with the pundits of gloom about global warming, perhaps TIME could investigate and print the views of those who challenge their claims. David Buckleigh, Rotorua, New Zealand
...boarded buses and headed into town--about a 1512-mile (25 km) journey--and some of the North Korea I'd read about and heard about from diplomats and refugees and defectors started to become real. In the late afternoon gloom, we passed row after row of apartment buildings and office buildings, almost all unlit. People either trudged along the side of the road or rode bikes, many stopping to stare at our convoy. And every mile or so, there stood in the middle of the road a female traffic cop in an aqua blue uniform and a fur-lined...