Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Russians went to the polls on July 3, they voted for Boris Yeltsin for one reason: the hope that he could bring some normality into their chaotic lives. But Russia today seems as unsettled as ever. The economy again appears in deep trouble, the war in Chechnya has flared...
But I wouldn't survive--even just for three months over the summer--without the opportunity to seek refuge, peace and quiet in the country.
Much has been written, some of it bitingly critical, about the arcane ways of English public school education, but it has probably been a refuge for a boy for whom the limelight has become a laser. Wills has gone the conventional route, and that means he started boarding school at...
"Free spirit" is the label often applied to young Hall. It is an image he cultivates, showing up at meets in leather motorcycle pants and cruising around in a customized 1962 purple microbus. When the Dead's Jerry Garcia died, Hall swam his next meet with a black band traced...
But for longtime readers like Brown, the real sci-fi is "hard" sci-fi. It's the literary equivalent of a whiskey shot: bracing, no-nonsense extrapolation of today's science. And it's coming back after years of neglect. The colonization of Mars, for example--a quintessential hard sci...