Word: perishables
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asked me what is the primary thing that defines Soviet-American relations. I think it is the immutable fact that whether we like one another or not, we can either survive or perish only together. The principal question that we must answer is whether we are at last ready to recognize that there is no other way to live at peace with each other and whether we are prepared to switch our mentality and our mode of acting from a warlike to a peaceful track. As you say, live and let live. We call it peaceful coexistence...
Understandably enough, the Walker spy scandal is an occasion for American self-examination and self-criticism. The revelations are being pondered for what they say about how democracy sometimes allows human venality to thrive and vital state secrets to perish. But there is another lesson in the whole shocking, sordid affair. It is a reminder that spying comes naturally to the Soviet Union in a way that is difficult for Americans to understand...
These quests are all part of the controversy and ferment that have been bubbling through the scientific community since the rise of a spectacular new theory that attempts to explain the mass extinctions--most notably the one in which the dinosaurs perished--that have punctuated the history of life on this planet. Every 26 million years or so, the theory holds, a rain of comets that lasts hundreds or thousands of centuries bombards the earth. The impact of some of the larger comets spews enough debris into the atmosphere to block the sun for months. As the skies darken, temperatures...
...their roosts and not allowed to realight. Recalls Chinese Ornithologist Tao Yaokuang, who was forced to take part in the program: "The idea was to harass them so they would be on their wings the whole day till they literally dropped dead." Sparrows were not the only birds to perish in the melee. Cranes, ibis and eagles, among others, were driven to near extinction by reckless pesticide spraying, pollution and the destruction of forests. Even today the woods around Peking remain eerily silent...
...every army officer knows, morale is crucial. The U.S. learned that the hard way in Viet Nam, where collapsing spirits at home subverted confidence in the field. Civilizations can flourish or perish according to their cultural morale. What the yuppies, in concert with a man like Ueberroth, have to offer is a new energy wedded to the belief that problems are solvable...