Word: planet
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Despite the Air Force reports, despite Pflock and Jeffrey, Roswell believers remain unshaken. "If you can't attack the data," Friedman says, "attack the people by saying they are nuts, kooks, quacks ... The evidence is overwhelming," he insists, "that planet Earth is being visited by extraterrestrial life...
...Corso writes, "[The U.S. and U.S.S.R.] both knew who the real targets of SDI were... When we deployed our advanced particle-beam weapon and tested it in orbit for all to see, the EBEs knew and we knew that they knew that we had our defense of the planet in place...
...rock acts like U2 and Smashing Pumpkins are incorporating it into their sound. And there is some great electronic music out there. Morcheeba's Who Can You Trust? (Discovery) is a rapturous blend of bluesy vocals and electro atmospherics; Carl Craig's More Songs about Food and Revolutionary Art (Planet E) is puckishly inventive; and The Rebirth of Cool FOUR (4th & Broadway) is an excellent compilation of electro acts. Later this year new CDs are due from two of the best electro acts, Goldie and Portishead...
...regulation-slashing champion of American business intact, the Senate said today it will reject an international treaty on global warming unless the developing world signs on as well. Appeals by a data-spouting Undersecretary of State Timothy Wirth for industrialized countries to lead the way in combatting the planet's "most important environmental challenge" fell on deaf ears as senators wondered aloud what was the point of a treaty that lets sizeable carbon dioxide-guzzlers such as China continue to pollute at will. The Administration plans to present its strategy at an international climate conference in Japan next year...
Like the President, most Americans just aren't sweating the fine points of the capital-punishment debate. While executions are being abolished in most parts of the planet--exceptions include Iran, Iraq, China, Yemen and some former Soviet states--Americans seem to want more of them, with fewer appeals and delays. Thanks to Congress and the courts, they're getting their wish--especially in the "Death Belt" states of Texas, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas and Alabama, which together account for 78% of the executions America has seen since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty...