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...Carter, there's no death sentence that can't be ameliorated by running into a wealthy guy ready to spend millions of dollars on a Last Holiday. (The 1950 Alec Guinness film of that title, remade in 2006 with Queen Latifah, is one of many precursors to this fantasyland scenario.) The specific lesson to be taken from this doesn't have much practical application, unless the dying start demanding a double room with a billionaire when they check in for their inoperable cancer surgery. But this movie exists wholly in the realm of metaphor, whose messages stick out like placards...
...skillful bit of mud-slinging, Samak, once himself known as a militarist, has used this scenario to accuse the Democrat Party, which has consistently criticized the coup, of being the army's puppets. Asked if he believes the generals will truly interfere if the PPP wins, Samak told TIME, "I would like to see how they will try. The world will be watching...
...Probably the biggest threat to us today is the scenario of a small, well-prepared group of Algerians making it to France without detection, and quickly unrolling an attack," a French intelligence official tells TIME. Interviews with French intelligence and counter-terrorism officials indicate recent busts of jihadists groups in France have uprooted networks seeking to recruit and transport young militants to fight U.S.-led forces in Iraq. The last group caught working toward an attack against France dates back to September 2005 - and had been working on instruction of AQIM's earlier incarnation, Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat...
...they do become realities, these are the kinds of ideas that have the potential to change our world in a radical way, and that in concert with other breakthrough technologies may have a significant impact on worldwide emissions. A carbon-free future is not the Jetsons-type scenario that one might imagine; it’s what happens when it’s not only environmentally friendly to be green, but also when it’s economically disastrous not to be.In the meanwhile, please keep recycling and turn off the lights when you leave a room.Jonathan B. Steinman...
...bomb wasn't meant to kill or harm someone in the law firm, then Jacquard says the only possibilities are that it was intended to be a far larger blast, or sought to gain a wider impact than its actual fire thanks to vast media coverage. That first scenario is unlikely at best, Jacquard explains, since successful detonation of the bomb - usually the aspect that goes awry in failed attacks - would have almost certainly set off the totality of the charge. The theory that the smaller explosion sought to generate an even larger shock wave in media reports seems...