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...metal coffin. Again arms flailed and chants of "Death to America!" filled the air as the helicopter touched down. Although barricades held most of the crowd at bay, the Guards were forced to make a frantic push past the outstretched hands to deliver the coffin to the grave site. At the last instant, the metal lid of the casket was ripped off, and the body was rolled into the grave, in keeping with an Islamic tradition that requires that the dead be interred in only a shroud. The grave was quickly covered with concrete slabs and a large freight container...
Among the most offensive purveyors of brutality to women are slasher films. The movies that inaugurated the trend, including Friday the 13th, Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street, are now tame compared with such opuses as I Spit on Your Grave or Splatter University. The main features: graphic and erotic scenes of female mutilation, rape or murder. Slasher films are widely shown on cable TV, and video shops do a booming business in rentals, especially among eleven-to-15-year-olds. Youngsters watch three or four at a clip at all-night "gross-out" parties. In some fraternity houses...
...There is a grave, pressing, desperate concern about space...The library is in dire need," Feng says, adding, "there is an inescapable need to solve it in the short run of five to 10 years...
...dramatic photographs that appear in these pages were taken by astronauts aboard U.S. space shuttles. The pictures provide clear evidence that the earth is in grave danger as a result of human activity. Overpopulation, pollution and energy consumption have created such planet-wide problems as massive deforestation, ozone depletion and the global warming that is believed to be caused by the greenhouse effect. Yet these alarming trends, and how they interact with such natural phenomena as hurricanes and volcanoes, are still not fully understood by scientists...
...court masques, shakes its red plumage with Italianate brio. And though his inventiveness is best seen in the stone and brick of his finished buildings, one marvels at its evidence in the drawings -- the variations he would run, for instance, on designs for ceremonial doorways, now grave and severe, now bursting with free uses for acquired Italian motifs...