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...Nevada, near Area 51, and it's 1957, a time of rock 'n' roll (Elvis's "Hound Dog" on the soundtrack), fear of the Soviets (and why not? they've just penetrated a U.S. military base), fear of The Bomb (hey, what's that mushroom cloud on the horizon?) and mass sightings of UFOs (coming right...
...darkness. Candles burn dimly in the ruins. Most of Rangoon is also without power, and only the well-lit Shwedagon, the nation's most scared pagoda, is visible from a distance. Otherwise, Burma's largest city?a city of 4 million people?is barely a flicker on the horizon...
...said. “If you look at the run-up to this crisis...there were a lot of red lights blinking.” Campbell took a slightly rosier view toward the short term, saying there were some “good things” happening on that horizon, but was fearful for the long run. “Banks have become very reluctant to lend to each other, which has caused a crisis of confidence in the financial system,” he said. “The reason people are so alarmed...is we?...
...unless a ship has navy support lurking just beyond the horizon, a traditional swashbuckling firefight is a bad idea. "Today I wouldn't dare recommend to anyone to arm themselves to fight pirates," said Edwin Mast, a former captain and current nautical technical consultant. "In the old days when they had knives and sticks, yes. But today they have machine guns...
...terms of individual rights there are two obviously pressing questions—the question of discrimination on the basis of disability on the constitutional side and in the interpretation of Americans with Disabilities Act, and the question of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. In terms of the horizon, the rights of nonhuman animals seem to me a quite pressing issue. I’m walking my dog as we speak and he agrees with...