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...their emotions. Proceeding to an 80-ft. gray stone obelisk that towers above the camp's mounded mass graves, Reagan spoke huskily of Bergen-Belsen's dead, who include Dutch Schoolgirl Anne Frank. Then he sounded his uplifting theme: "We are here today to confirm that the horror cannot outlast hope...
...boxing mobs were as sour as the judging: it is probably too soon to tell Evander Holyfield, a U.S. light heavyweight disqualified for not pulling his punches, that in the end this heartache may end up distinguishing him from the crowd of champions. The ironies of the Games usually outlast the scores: Swimmer Rick Carey is criticized for preferring a world record to a gold medal; Carl Lewis is blamed for the reverse...
While it can take many decades for artistic judgments to solidify, to demonstrate that a Mozart will outlast a Salieri, art forms themselves now change rapidly. Readers in 1923 had never heard a movie actor talk, never imagined a television screen. Technology kept bringing new transformations: long-playing records, high-speed cameras, videotape equipment. Not only arts changed but audiences as well. Local orchestras, opera, ballet and theater companies proliferated. So did the electronic babel (sitcom disc-jockey disco-rock singing commercial) that now seems an inescapable fact of life. In the age of the mass audience, more people could...
...trillion miles) between Pioneer and Barnard's star, a small, cool, red celestial object that does not seem to have life-supporting planets. Still, as scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center note, Pioneer should survive indefinitely in the vacuum of interstellar space. The machine may even outlast the solar system itself, which is expected to expire in another 5 billion years when the sun swells into a red giant and engulfs the inner planets...
...admonitions that Congress in the past 18 months has rejected two Administration-backed basing modes for the beleaguered MX because they did not solve that problem. The commission's approach: redefine the concept. While admitting that survivability of fixed targets, such as MX missile silos, "may not outlast this century," the panel argued that the triad of bombers plus land-and sea-based strategic weapons, "assessed collectively and not in isolation," guarantees deterrence...