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...George Orwell and wrote eloquently of the power of a language to structure the way and the things we think: "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it...Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller...
...sounds true enough. Between these two worlds, separated only by a narrow strait, you have the biggest political, economic and social disparity imaginable. It's more than an island against-mainland matter. It's capitalism against communism. Freedom against control. And, above all, a population of 21 million against 1.2 billion. It would be no exaggeration for the mainlanders to claim, which some of them once did out of envy and hostility, that if each of the 1.2 billion residents in the People's Republic of China (PRC) spit into the Taiwan Strait, the island of Taiwan would be submerged...
...PERPLEXED LAYMEN, THE CELEbrated Nobel Prizes often seem to point down obscure pathways of science, focusing on narrow, highly specialized research that few nonscientists can understand or appreciate. Not this year. The $1 million 1995 prizes in physics, chemistry, economics, and medicine or physiology, announced in Stockholm last week, went to scientists who have wrestled with questions at once basic and easily grasped: What is the universe made of? How does DNA create complex life-forms? What made the hole in the ozone layer? And how do people decide how they spend and invest their money...
With the appointment almost inevitable, the next fight on the panel will be over what the counsel will be allowed to investigate. Republicans want to keep the focus narrow, perhaps just on the possible tax-law violations involving the funding of the college course Gingrich taught. But the Democrats want a broad investigation of whether Gingrich broke federal laws and House rules as he mounted his long and deliberate campaign to become Speaker. Among the questions raised...
...trapped in the massive gridlock that formed along woefully inadequate evacuation routes. "I sat in traffic for hours and then gave up," says Brown. She finally drove off the highway and rode out the storm, stuck with her dog in a parking lot. Many who did get off the narrow barrier islands drove for hours--some for as many as 13 hours--looking for a dry place to spend the night...