Word: melt
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...different awful future in The Handmaid's Tale, her 1985 book about a U.S. controlled by Fundamentalist Christians. Here she sticks closely to the rules of dystopian writing. Civilization has succumbed to a calamity, in this case brought on by heedless bioengineering, the kind that sets loose viruses that melt down their victims like "pink sorbet on a barbecue." Then again, the world was asking for it, what with the webcast suicides, the rampant porn and the chickens altered genetically to consist of nothing but a mouth and a multitude of (barely) edible breasts. As for the social arrangements...
...Pathet Lao would win he fled to Thailand and then to the U.S. Today, some 200,000 other Hmong live in exile communities in the U.S. But not all Hmong made it to America: 15,000 of Vang's brethren were cut off from escape and were forced to melt away into the mountainous jungles of Laos...
...Bush were to promote a lasting settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian tragedy, many of the suspicions that attach to his policies would melt away. The power of the U.S. is too great and its influence too pervasive for it ever to be loved by all. But an America that tried to settle a dispute that has bedeviled the globe and caused deep human suffering for generations could not be dismissed as simply a descendant of the heartless empires of history--and might have a chance of lasting longer than most of them. --With reporting by Scott MacLeod/Cairo, J.F.O. McAllister/London...
...this instead of a candy bar," says Sharron Dalton, professor of nutrition at New York University. But experts warn that just because these bars are low in "net carbs"--the kind that affect blood sugar and can contribute to weight gain--they won't necessarily cause the pounds to melt away. Factors such as calories, fat and fiber and whether the bars are used as a snack or a meal replacement also weigh in. "You'll gain weight on anything that's an energy source if you intake more energy than you use," says Dalton. Bars that are lower...
...digress. And meanwhile, the gift certificate remains, collecting dust. This whole situation reminds me of the scene in Reality Bites when the disillusioned Troy quips, “I ride my own melt.” Whatever that means, I think it sums up where I am. The days are numbered, optimism is waning, the daydreams fade. Strength and honor, I tell myself, but to be honest, I don’t think that there’s much hope for this thing riding out as expected, no coup de grace. And that?...