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...kind of timing that exists only in fiction? It needs not only all the above but also a measure of foresight, so that a solution, any solution, is permanent. An Arab-Israeli peace today is ripe for the picking, so ripe that waiting will almost guarantee it will rot and fall off the tree...
...rice as the first modest start of a new green revolution, in which ancient food crops would acquire all manner of useful properties: bananas that wouldn't rot on the way to market; corn that could supply its own fertilizer; wheat that could thrive in drought-ridden soil...
...Yeah, I heard," Lee replied. The agent persisted. "You know Aldrich Ames? He's going to rot in jail." When Lee tried to leave, pleading fatigue, an agent warned, "if you walk out that door today...I can't stop the people from polygraphing your wife...
...long lines spanning up to 80 miles, dangling scores of thousands of baited hooks; enormous nets, nearly invisible in water. These indiscriminate killers drown everything, including birds and mammals, that takes the bait or blunders into the mesh. The unwanted--a quarter of everything caught--is discarded, left to rot or, sometimes, taken aboard to be ground into meal and fertilizer...
...used to be that way. Katharine Hepburn once said to me, "There's only one good thing about talk shows. People get to watch you rot...