Word: powerfulness
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Grownups are often conflicted about bullying. We know that power struggles are part of life, and we want our kids to learn on their own how to make their way through the schoolyard. But being bullied can destroy a kid's well-being and confidence. And it gets in the way of schooling. Parents need to know that kids don't learn any valuable lessons from being bullied. The only good lessons learned come from defeating a bully. And the best way to beat a bully is to avoid being a victim...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN No individual in all of history, completely on his own, using only the power of one, has changed the lives of more people than Soviet dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Lenin set the stage by creating the first totalitarian socialist state system of concentration camps, which exterminated 60 million Soviet citizens in 50 years. Solzhenitsyn survived eight years in prison camps and three years of internal exile and, in secret, wrote The Gulag Archipelago, revealing for the first time the existence of this chain ("archipelago") of death mills. The moment the manuscript of the book's first volume...
VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN A great person may be bad as well as good. Lenin, whose use of power in the Soviet Union, which he created and whose influence in the wider world was wholly for the bad, is undoubtedly the century's dominant figure. The ideas of Karl Marx were of little more than philosophical importance until 1917, when Lenin applied those ideas with revolutionary force and established the Bolshevik Party throughout the government. Bolshevik Russia became an example to Marxist revolutionaries everywhere and energized nationalist reactionaries, of whom the most important was Adolf Hitler. Hitler's ideological...
...physicist David T. Wilkinson will soon begin surveying nearby stars with a detector similar to Horowitz's. At the University of California, Berkeley, extrasolar-planet hunter Geoff Marcy is re-examining his data for sharp spectral lines that might indicate a continuous beam of light intended as a low-power signal. Another Berkeley team, led by SETI veteran Dan Werthimer, is looking for short, powerful laser bursts in a series of automated observations of 2,500 nearby stars. Later he plans to turn to invisible infrared light and other galaxies...
...million m.p.h., judging by the redshift. This is exactly the kind of searing speed a black hole ought to produce. While the Goddard scientists may not have the distinction of being the first to see a black hole itself, they are thus the first direct witnesses of its extraordinary power...