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...home with the French aristocracy, which--it paid to be original, noted one of his successors--was entirely at home with him. In France he was cultivated, cosseted, lionized by dukes, counts and princes, for which John Adams could no more forgive him than he could accept Franklin's rampant popularity with footmen and chambermaids. In Philadelphia Franklin trailed behind him the self-made man's dubious scent of social climbing. In France he did not have to climb. He was hoisted...
...Hanging Chad The World Economic Forum released rankings of Africa's best-run economies. Botswana took the top spot, while Chad, thanks to rampant corruption, came last...
...rules of dystopian writing. Civilization has succumbed to a calamity, in this case brought on by heedless bioengineering, the kind that sets loose viruses that melt down their victims like "pink sorbet on a barbecue." Then again, the world was asking for it, what with the webcast suicides, the rampant porn and the chickens bred genetically to consist of nothing but a mouth and a multitude of (barely) edible breasts. As for the social arrangements, the precatastrophe elite lived in walled compounds while everyone else scrambled in the teeming "pleeblands." In other words, it was the world we live...
...rules of dystopian writing. Civilization has succumbed to a calamity, in this case brought on by heedless bioengineering, the kind that sets loose viruses that melt down their victims like "pink sorbet on a barbecue." Then again, the world was asking for it, what with the webcast suicides, the rampant porn and the chickens altered genetically to consist of nothing but a mouth and a multitude of (barely) edible breasts. As for the social arrangements, the precatastrophe élite lived in walled compounds while everyone else scrambled in the teeming "pleeblands." In other words, it was the world we live...
...coalition officials, is security. Ordinary residents of the capital are not appreciably safer now than they were when the city first fell. Gangs of looters - some of them remnants of the old regime, according to U.S. officials, targeting their actions to maintain maximum chaos - have continued to run rampant, and expectations that the wave of looting that followed the regime's fall would abate have proved optimistic. Instead, looters have become more organized, extending to residential neighborhoods and personal property, and firefights among rival gangs and between the gangs and residents protecting their neighborhoods has become commonplace. Banks remain closed...