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King Hussein of Jordan, also a near-absolute monarch, ascended to the throne at the age of 17 in 1953. He has since proven to be a formidable and astute monarch. While Jordan has not been a source of natural oil reserves, and has the unfortunate geographical position of being wedged between Israel and Iraq, King Hussein has managed to both modernize his country and maintain a balancing act between the Israelis and the Arab world, perhaps the most successful Arab leader to do so to date...
Moments later Berman returned the favor by targeting Miller, who was lurking dangerously near the net. Miller quickly gave the Crimson a 2-0 cushion...
...nursing home before she arrived had evaporated. "I couldn't get anybody's attention, starting on the fourth day," recalls the bed-bound 84-year-old. "You'd have your call light on for hours, but nobody came." What made her waiting more desolate was the near total deprivation of sunlight during her four months at Creekside. "It was a dungeon," she says. "I really would have liked to see the sunshine, but they never put us outside." Things only got worse when the sun set, and the staff ignored calls for help or pain-killers. "The screaming is what...
...scanning the skies, borrowing time on large telescopes, building their own detectors out of off-the-shelf parts and barely scraping by on the $1 million or so that NASA contributes annually to the total effort. Their goal is to identify and determine the orbits of the still undiscovered "near Earth" asteroids. That would enable them to predict, sometimes many years in advance, the possibility of a disastrous encounter. Those predictions and knowledge gained from missions like Clementine II would give Earth's defenders time to mount the appropriate defense, using missiles to deflect or destroy a threatening intruder...
...very near future the world is divided into the genetic haves and have-nots. The former are designed in labs prior to conception; with a twist on this DNA strand, a tug on that one, they come out smart, handsome and spared even such minor inconveniences as lefthandedness. The have-nots, products of their parents' taking a romantic free fall into the gene pool, are condemned to hard labor in support of their superiors. They are also burdened with flightier emotions...