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...starting a substantive conversation...aye, there's the rub. A lot of people fear that some monster called "Political Correctness" is going to devour them if they slip up--if they, for instance, forget to use the adjective "[fill-in-the-blank]-ly-challenged." Only peppering one's speech with the words "pluralism," "diversity," and "sensitivity," it seems, will appease the beast...
WASHINGTON: That cash-hungry monster known as the International Space Station just keeps on growing. Now NASA wants an extra $660 million from Congress to help prop up the Russian end of the operation, and space agency officials admit the bail-out cost could spiral up to $1.3 billion. The ISS project is starting to look like a farcical inversion of the 60's space race -- by working together over the past four years, the two Cold War rivals have not managed to put a single component in Earth orbit. And then there's the bill, which keeps increasing exponentially...
...will come eventually. Many researchers think we are entering a period of increased hurricane intensity, more like the period from 1940 through 1969 when monster storms swept ashore with greater frequency. Anyone who lived through Hurricane Andrew in 1992 might disagree, but the experts say that for the past quarter-century America has got off easy. The last Category 5, or "catastrophic," hurricane was Camille, which struck the Gulf Coast in 1969 with winds over 200 m.p.h. and a storm surge 24 ft. high. Since then, hurricane activity has been mild...
...ground up by the machinery of investigation and fame. This new Monica is still warm, puts people at ease, pays attention to them when they speak, but she watches out for herself in a way she never had to before. The prosecutor whom she had viewed as a monster was now offering his protection, and the President whom she had shielded as her special friend was now the one with the most to fear...
...they? I refuse to believe everyone has the potential to become a monster, but the line between real life and crime is so thin as to be indistinguishable to some. Only in the ability to choose right over wrong are we truly human...