Word: horizons
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...REAL RAY GUNS Further out on the horizon, the line between weapons development and science fiction becomes perilously thin. Mission Research Corp. of Santa Barbara, Calif., is working on a pulsed energy projectile (PEP) that superheats the surface moisture around a target so rapidly that it literally explodes, producing a bright flash of light and a loud bang. The effect is like a stun grenade, but unlike a grenade the pep travels at nearly the speed of light and can take out a target with pinpoint accuracy. Or picture this: a flashlight-size device, currently in development at HSV Technologies...
...perfect." She somehow teaches him Cantonese in six weeks, they become friends and Tom launches his career as a hotelier in Hong Kong, where his Chinese gives him a double-edged insight into the divided colony. The years pass and Stewart comes to love Hong Kong, but his romantic horizon remains clear of so much as a Suzie Wong, let alone a Mrs. Stewart. As it is ever so slowly inferred, he's in love with Sister Maria, and she with him. As affairs go, this is a 0-0 tie. It's a cold flame that animates the heart...
While the majority of American women work outside the home in all professions, the public still struggles with the idea of a female president. These attitudes have to change in a post-Madeline Albright and Condoleezza Rice political horizon. People need to recognize female politicians for their qualifications and not for their gender. Our nation’s failure to do so deprives it of female decision and policy-making abilities...
When you hear the word bicentennial, it brings to mind the year 1976, when Americans were painting everything red, white and blue. But there is an event just over the horizon that will bring fresh meaning to the word, a commemoration of a three-year saga that began in January 1803, when President Jefferson sent Congress a secret plan for exploring the "Western Ocean" and asked for $2,500 to finance the trip. The ensuing adventure of Lewis and Clark and their multicultural Corps of Discovery is such a defining American saga that we wanted to be second to none...
Between the journalist and his subject lies an unbridgeable chasm. Invisible in peacetime, in war the division becomes as clear as the desert horizon. Confronted even by tragedy or death, the witness must stay detached, or risk being consumed...