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...United States, currently allied with Fujimori in his fight against Shining Path guerrilla warfare, passed a bipartisan resolution early last week that implored Fujimori to maintain the integrity of the electoral process and threatened to "modify its political and economic relations with Peru" should he fail to comply. A few days later, it was announced that Fujimori had fallen short of the required majority by about 20,000 votes...
NEOs are asteroids or occasional comets that periodically intersect or come close to Earth's orbit. If a NEO cuts through our orbital path at the same time that Earth happens by, it's curtains for a metropolitan area, a region or even global civilization, depending on the size of the interloper...
...antiparticle associated with the electron) can be considered to be an electron going backward in time. Thus, if we create an electron-positron pair and the positron later annihilates in a collision with another, different electron, we could view this as a single electron executing a zigzag, N-shaped path through time: forward in time as an electron, then backward in time as a positron, then forward in time again as an electron...
...natural historian at heart, however, I confess my strong preference for the second path of exploration: a search for possible natural occurrences elsewhere. This Columbian path has served us so well before, and nature's products do tend to outshine our own poor workmanship by manifesting things undreamed of in all our philosophy. So let us seek nature's own replicate--on Mars or a few other potential places in our solar system, if we really luck out (and are willing to content ourselves with simple things at bacterial grade and unfit for mutual conversation); or elsewhere, despite daunting distances...
...architect of this conceptual prison built only two doors leading to a solution, with the path to each door marked by the same sign: FIND A REPLICATE! On one path, we make the replicates ourselves by gaining such an improved understanding of the nature of things that we can define the set of all conceivable living forms and then test their properties by chemical synthesis in our laboratory...