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...thing, the movie is set in Colorado but was filmed in Italy. The towering white needles of the Dolomites don't look anything like the massive peaks of the Rockies, and . . . ah, the hell with it. What really irks is that all the heroics, the nifty pendulum swings and the human-fly action below the 40-ft. overhangs, are sure to bring more flatlanders into the mountains...
...REFORMIST LEADERSHIP TRIED to keep top posts in the ruling Communist Party separate from those of the government. That campaign reversed a tradition established by no less a figure than Mao Zedong, who served simultaneously as party chief and head of state from 1954 to 1959. Now the pendulum seems headed back toward the direction of double dipping -- and a reconsolidation of official power in party hands...
Complexity theory and chaos theory share more than the attention of enterprising writers; they are scientific first cousins. The essence of chaos theory is that certain phenomena involve so many factors that they are inherently unpredictable; although a scientist may be able to project the pattern of a swinging pendulum or a flying cannonball, it is impossible to determine how far apart two leaves will be after they go through a waterfall or exactly what the weather will be a month from now. Reason: in systems governed by the mathematics of chaos, small events have big consequences. For instance, even...
Skeptical about the whole thing? I was, also, at first. Hey, I wanted to see the swinging pendulum and the crystal ball...
...basic economics. James McConkey can't scientifically prove it, but his hunch is that people who drive 20 miles to a Wal-Mart, and so contribute to the decline of their town, end up paying higher taxes, which is a premium for the merchandise they get. Eventually, the pendulum will swing, the marketplace will adjust. That is what American capitalism is all about, as Mr. Sam knew as well as any merchant of the modern...