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...more than a million residents to West Virginia, if given 72 hours' notice of a nuclear attack. People would theoretically flee in sequence according to their zip codes; the estimated 330,000 Baltimoreans without cars would board MTA buses, already notorious for being late even on the most placid of days. Inexplicably, the proposal envisions at least 33,000 leaving the city armed with crowbars. Complained Councilman Dominic DiPietro as he stormed out of the meeting: "What a bunch of garbage...
Life in the Ivory Tower is far from placid--the vigor Bok shows in addressing difficult issues deserves praise. The continued use of phrases like "notwithstanding" notwithstanding, the book is clearly written and provocative, which will come as a welcome surprise to those who have slogged through his open letters...
...converted into a piece of coveted currency. Scrooge brings corruption to Utopia, just as, in another story, he almost brings industrial pollution to "the smokeless northern wilds." The miser skips out of Duckburg to escape the smog his own heavy industries have created, but the first glimpse of placid lakes and tall timber sets him to thinking about natural gas and paper mills...
...team hinted at all-out effort, but never sustained it. For brief spurts it tapped into the competitive spirit that has to be under the placid demeanor somewhere, but in the end, it was always Rutgers shooting and scoring after a bruising hit and jostling hard enough for the ground hall to finally be able to pick...
From a distance, seemingly beyond the stage, the workshop of an eccentric inventor swims into view, its cheery interior alive with whirring mechanical toys that no child has ever imagined. Gondolas glide serenely through the perfumed, decadent atmosphere of La Serenissima-Venice, dark and dangerous. A placid bourgeois home suddenly explodes with the nightmarish visitation of a sinister, cadaverous physician who walks through walls and bursts from fireplaces in a ball of flame...