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...began. Nitric oxides rained from the air, turning the sea to acid. Clouds of soot from incinerated forests darkened the sky, hiding the sun for months. Worldwide, the temperature dropped precipitously, killing off most of the plants and animals that had survived the initial cataclysm. Though some species would linger on for millenniums, the reign of the great reptiles was finally over...
...every culture, some atrocities linger generation after generation, needing closure. Nearly 400 years after the fact, Japan is preparing to return 20,000 noses that its army amputated from Korean soldiers and civilians. The noses, as well as the heads of Korean generals, were taken as spoils of war during an invasion in 1597. Protected until now in a special memorial, they will probably be buried in the Cholla province of South Korea. That region suffered the worst of the long-remembered brutalities...
...Kissinger as having acquired a coroner's callousness toward the victims of geopolitics. According to Isaacson, Kissinger told Gerald Ford's press secretary on the eve of Saigon's fall in 1975, "Why don't these people die fast? The worst thing that could happen is for them to linger...
...Baseball's other difficulties are too serious," says former Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, "for the owners to linger over this for long." Through the expected litigation -- in which Vincent will be represented by Brendan Sullivan, Oliver North's attorney in the Iran-contra hearings -- the owners will keep pressing for Vincent's resignation, because they want a stronger advocate with a weaker mandate. Probably there is no white knight for the owners, but it's sweet to daydream about the perfect candidate. A man of stature and compromise. A man whose son is an owner of the Texas Rangers. If George...
...ways of the Wasp linger today, despite condoms and Madonna. America attracts hard workers from abroad and breeds them at home, whatever Japanese politicians may think. Thomas Jefferson could still vaguely recognize our politics (Aaron Burr would certainly recognize our dirty politics). Survey after survey finds that Americans are the most religious people in the industrialized world, and the seriousness with which we take our sex scandals amazes cynical Europeans...