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...scared about, on top of the environmental thing. Nuclear destruction or being poisoned - one of our nuclear plants could just go kablooey because there are flaws in them. Pesticides, herbicides, all these different chemicals that we've [let loose] on the environment could reach some kind of critical mass...
...really bite back at us. There will be a population crash of humans. Either it's one we manage ... or nature is going to do it for us, and that's not going to be pretty. There's going to be famine, there are going to be droughts, epidemics, mass responses to chemicals, and ultimately a few fit ones will survive and the human race will continue on that...
...combines nonprofit institutions that can take chances on commercially risky productions with profitmaking enterprises seeking big returns. This means that an actress can work in an off-Broadway production of The Seagull at night and still make the rent shooting a TV spot during the day. Meanwhile, a critical mass of institutions of higher education - the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Parsons School of Design, the Julliard School of Music, the School of American Ballet - are constantly training new cadres...
...this remote village, few people are still alive who can bear witness to these horrors, and it may be too late to correct the misinformation carved into the Soviet plaque beside the mass grave. But elsewhere, Desbois has used his dogged persistence to commemorate the execution of Jews before all recollection of them is lost forever. In late December, Yaroslav Nadiak, Rava-Ruska's former deputy mayor, hired workers to lay a cement gravestone with a Jewish star in Borowe, a village on the edge of town, atop the mass grave containing about 1,500 Jews - the one Nadiak...
...December 27, Kenya held its elections, which saw incumbent President Mwai Kibaki claim victory over opposition Raila Odinga, whose supporters then accused Kibaki of fraud. Mass riots and looting occurred across the country, blocking trade routes and killing over 600. Aid agencies estimate 250,000 people have been displaced due to the conflict...