Word: helling
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...alive and well in American politics. And the most puzzling of these latter-day Puritans emerge every election season, toting charts and graphs and public policy initiatives, all intended to prove what their more theologically minded forebears always believed: namely, that America is on a fast-track express to hell. Their devil is no longer Lucifer, who so terrified the divines of the 17th century--rather, they see perdition looming in the "crisis" of low voter-turnout...
...there any reason to suppose that we should? Is low voter-turnout actually a "problem" as the Vanishing Voter project imagines it to be? Is a nation where half the voting public steers clear of the polls each November on its way to some civic version of Puritan hell...
...ferocity of the issue, he has only to look across the Channel to see how easily the protests could resume. It doesn't really matter that most of the current price rise is OPEC's doing or that Europe's economy is generally thriving. Drivers there are mad as hell, and they just won't take it anymore...
...squeeze a rock epic like Kiss's Double Platinum into the 32 MB (an hour of music, at best) that is standard on such popular MP3 players as the Rio 600. But the new Nomad Jukebox ($499), due out next week from Creative, has a hotter-than-hell 6 GB of memory. That's enough to keep you rockin' all night...
Talk about a holiday in hell. As thousands of troops, planes and helicopters press their assault for a third day on Islamic fundamentalist rebels on the troubled Philippines island of Jolo, 24-year-old American Jeffrey Schilling may be wondering - if he's still alive - how he found his way into this nightmare. Held captive by an army led by one of his wife's relatives, who has threatened to cut off Schilling's head unless the U.S. government releases one of the most dangerous terrorists in its prison system, he now also has to contend with the fact that...