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...atmosphere will eventually rebalance itself, more or less. "I wanted to write a book that was intentionally not apocalyptic," says Weisman, who teaches journalism at the University of Arizona. "Apocalypse means destruction, and the whole world ends. In my book, I show how beautiful things could get?and how quickly???if we weren't around. How things revert to wilderness, almost like the Garden of Eden." (The History Channel's Life After People, which airs Jan. 21, has essentially the same premise...
...Bally's Midway division as a black-and-white game called Catch 40. A little man ran back and forth trying to catch falling objects on his head. As the game progressed, the objects fell faster and faster. Early tests showed that the game grew too difficult too quickly???the objects fell so fast no one could catch them. "You were arbitrarily deprived of playing," said Martin Keane, Bally's director of technology. "In the ideal situation, the player feels it's his own fault that he lost." So Catch 40 lay on the shelf for two years...
That meant that France, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland must rally to a last desperate defense of their gold standards. Their first stand came quickly???when Liege, fourth city of Belgium, suddenly defaulted on its debts. The Government promptly stepped to its aid but pressure on the Belga spread to other gold-bloc currencies, and for the first time in two months the dollar rose to parity with the franc...
...keep house. A contemporary thus described her: "Mrs. Greeley was a woman rather below the medium size, thin, with dark hair and eyes. She had thin lips, irregular and somewhat defective teeth. There was little expression in her face, but that little was rather against her. She spoke quickly???not peevishly, nor angrily, as a rule, but her words had a kind of crack like the report of a rifle." Horace was kind and patient with this woman whom he addressed as "Mother." She kept cows which "Mother says shall never be killed while she lives, because they have given...
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