Word: perishability
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...slowly changing to a more normal type of government, it is a social and relatively peaceful evolution in Islamic society that is making it happen. But the Bush Administration's imperious insistence on quick change is revolutionary?and history is replete with examples of sovereign nations that would rather perish for the wrong reason than have outsiders force change upon them. That Bush is crusading as a missionary of democracy is a crime against the rest of us who are now the victims of Muslim outrage. Muslims everywhere consider themselves under siege. There is an anti-Christian mind-set that...
...that what brought it all down? Many gay politicians serve openly today, from Republican Congressman Jim Kolbe of Arizona to Oregon Supreme Court Justice Rives Kistler. And countless straight politicians could tell McGreevey that a career can perish even when your secret passions are heterosexual. Just ask former Governor Paul Patton of Kentucky, who had to abandon plans for a 2004 Senate race after he was accused of misusing his office to help a woman with whom he had had an affair. Or Jack Ryan, the millionaire who was running for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois this year until...
Consider, for example, the massive forest diebacks occurring across the West. "People tend to think of forests as pretty slow changing," says Craig Allen, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. "But once certain thresholds are exceeded, very rapid changes can occur." In some cases, thirsting trees perish because their circulatory systems--the long tubular columns in the trunk that transport water from the roots to the crown--collapse. In other cases, the trees become so weak they can no longer fend off insects and disease...
...nice that studio bosses recognize that there are not only scenarios but auteurs worth gambling on. We'll know soon enough whether Nakata and Shimizu flourish or perish in Tinseltown. But two changes can be expected. The U.S. remakes will streamline the original films' perplexing (and beguiling) ambiguity. And the heroines, who in Japan often accept their fate passively, will be morphed into righteous fighters...
...genie is out of the bottle,” he said. “Perhaps downloading music will turn music back to the days of local musicians playing locally, a sort of cottage industry. Perish the thought that I would ever be grateful to a record company, but they did act as a sort of sorting office. Soon we might have to just logon and look at the names of 10,000 bands and try and guess which ones we might like...