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...organic compounds. But complex, self-reproducing chemicals like dna? They shouldn't have arisen in a trillion years. At an even deeper level, the second law of thermodynamics dictates that the universe should inexorably move toward disorganization. Cups of tea always cool off; they never spontaneously get hotter. Iron rusts, but rust never turns into iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Field of Complexity | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

Baez also played plenty of old favorites with newfound verve, including her chart-topping hit "Diamonds and Rust" and her joyous ode to life, "Gracias a la Vida." She had the audience clapping and joining in the chorus of "The Night Old Dixie Came To Town...

Author: By Ganesh Ramakrishnan, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Joan Baez Rekindles Magic of Past | 12/3/1992 | See Source »

...Crimson showed more signs (11 turnovers at half) of rust on the offensive end, but still could do basically what it wanted...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: M. Cagers Survive 2nd Half Collapse | 11/17/1992 | See Source »

...environmental wackos out there, and the state's lousy economy is blamed on us. We'd need a big recovery to get competitive there, and we're not going to get it." The bottom line of this early speculation is familiar: another election decided by small margins in the Rust Belt bastions -- Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Front And Center | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

...drags her notorious past around as if it were a fur coat worn too long in the rain. She is someone who has done everything and now wants to feel anything. Each disappointment is a station of the cross leading to a Calvary with no payoff: "Ashes to ashes, rust to dust, this is what becomes of us" (Primitive). At the end she is withered, regretful, a little wiser, like a Samuel Beckett creature on her deathbed. She knows this last journey will be a vacation: "Dying is easy. It's living that scares me to death" (Cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angst For Art's Sake | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

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