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...other end of the square, at the exit gates, the marchers break out of formation and, plainly relieved, drop the expressions of grim determination. Out-of-towners sprint towards the buses that will take them home. Tikritis hang back, catch up with friends for a chat...
...Among them, James Roberts has set his sights the highest. His unauthorized, self-published novel is entitled _Eugenesis_, and details a grim chapter in the history of the original Robots in Disguise. The experienced "Transfan" will be in the science-fiction adherent's equivalent of hog heaven. The casual reader, however, may find himself bewildered by the dizzying amount of obscure references and asides that litter the novel. _Eugenesis_ takes place in the year 2012, with the Transformer war driving both sides to the brink of destruction. Corruption from within proves as weakening as enemies without, and the arrival...
...ascends to a 4,500-ft.-high ridgeline overlooking the Kern River in the California Sierras, Ruby Johnson Jenkins says she smells trouble. Stretching out before her is a vast panorama of blackened slopes, a grim legacy of the fire last August that burned more than 150,000 acres of the Sequoia National Forest. But it isn't the charred timber that makes her wrinkle her nose. The ill odor, she says, is coming from Washington, specifically from President George W. Bush's controversial plan to increase logging in national forests in the name of reducing the risk of fires...
...South Korean jetliner that killed 115 people. Hwang Jang Yop, once Pyongyang's chief propagandist and the most senior North Korean official to defect, says Kim terrorizes his own countrymen as well. Hwang depicts Kim as touchy, paranoid and vindictive and says he dispatches those who cross him to grim concentration camps...
With time running out, $277,000 raised thus far and only 35 active members, the congregation is facing a grim future...