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...Pyongyang, where food is most available, rations for bureaucrats have been reduced to between 3 and 6 oz. of rice per day. Many factories have closed; the rest are operating at 25% of capacity. Pyongyang is without electricity for hours each day. Many farmers are too weak from hunger to harvest crops or plant seeds. Not only have poor diets made North Koreans shorter and lighter over the past 20 years, but parents "may be raising a generation with lower IQs because of the malnutrition," says a U.S. official with access to the intelligence reports...
Cults are on the rise; so is interest in aliens, witchcraft, New Ageism, Satanism and anything having to do with the occult. Spiritual hunger is a natural part of the human psyche, but so are self-centeredness and obstinacy. Rather than turn to God, we try to fill the hole in our souls with money, prestige, sex, drugs, alcohol, food, pop culture, occult knowledge--virtually everything. Where does this lead us? To a decaying society rife with addicts and 39 dead Trekkies. It's time to get our heads out of the stars and turn back to that old-time...
...opposing opinions in a fascinating, jittery suspension," says TIME's Paul Gray. "He loves the intellectual purities of science and understands them better than any American novelist ever. He also loathes the power that science bestows, since it always ends up in the wrong hands, i.e., those with a hunger for such power. At its most eloquent, Mason & Dixon becomes an epic of loss...
...unconscionable that 35,000 people die every day of hunger while billions of dollars are thrown away on weapons," Kennedy said while standing in front of a larger-than life mural of King, another winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...
...bodies are tagged and the families contacted, we know what the experts will say before they say it. That in times of upheaval and uncertainty, people seek out leaders with power and charisma. That the established churches are too fainthearted to satisfy the wilder kinds of spiritual hunger. That the self-denial and regimentation of cult life will soften up anyone for the kill...