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...Karachi, Bagram and New York State count as clear successes, they also suggest just how arduous the process of defeating al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups will be. Investigators are operating like children trying to understand the night sky, picking off one constellation at a time--there's Orion, there's the Big Dipper--without being able to see the pattern of the universe. Still, we know far more about Islamic terrorism than we did a year ago; and each week, we learn a little more...
...closings aren't finished yet - Orion Refining Corp., of Norco, La., hopes to restart one of its refineries early next month, after nearly six weeks of glitch-fighting. Several East Coast refiners still have closings scheduled this spring. And everyone in the refinery business is looking ahead at years of increased demand - and making sure that their plants will be able to run at full steam far beyond this summer...
...latest work derives its title from the symbolic figure of Orion, whose presence frames the book's namesake poem, "Midnight Salvage." The eight-section poems run through pieces of Rich's past, focusing particularly on a college life that, according to Rich, was as "a cemetery is controlled." The morbid metaphor originates in this piece, which makes backhanded allusions to John Keats and Antonio Gramsci, who are buried in the same cemetery in Rome. Through Rich's instinctive search for the figure of Orion, listeners and readers voyage with the poet through a life of activism, looking through "history...
...portrayer Timothy 8. It apologized for having insured the lives of slaves 9. Conger, for one 11. Viviana __, winner of 39-Across's Science Talent Search Competition 12. Name on Prizms, once 14. Within earshot 17. Its House has okayed civil unions for gays 20. Star in the constellation Orion 22. Native of Brno 24. Word on either side of -a- 25. Notre Dame's Parseghian 27. Word with doctor's or marching 28. Org. that drew fire for its "Got Beer?" ad campaign 29. Quarter-mile paths, perhaps 30. Kenyon, who got the most votes...
...course, I believe, as many do, that all these changes will become moot owing to the coming invasion of Superior Beings from the 12th Quadrant of the Fifth Dimension, known to us earthers as the Great Nebula in Orion (see my essay "Who Will Destroy Our Civilization and Lay Waste to Life on Earth as We Know It in the Next Century?" in the next Visions issue). If the indicators are correct, the mother ship of these Ecstatic Beings will emit a cloud of radioactive gas that blankets the planet, wiping out all life for a period...