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Earthquakes, floods and fugitive diseases are, at any rate, random evidence that the earth itself is mysteriously and sometimes wildly alive. That somehow added to the metaphysical fascination of watching the Americans' Viking lander scratch around in the rusty Martian soil to see if that world, too, had been visited by the secret force...
...during the Senate's debate, that "every good loophole deserves another." What may be emerging, nonetheless, is an encouraging feeling that the existing tax code simply cannot be revised to any significant extent -that the current system will have to be scrapped entirely and another one started from scratch...
Selling Catsup. The outlaw-desperado theme pervades L.A. rock. Even in a city with dozens of thriving clubs and recording studios, rock's musical desperados can be hard pressed to scratch out a living. The Chicago-born Zevon did a stint at a Los Angeles advertising agency, composing a jingle for Camaro cars as well as ditties for Boone's Farm Wines. "They wanted folky, Gordon Lightfoot commercials," he remembers. "It was immensely profitable (up to $3,000 per ad) but selling catsup and cheap wine is truly abrasive to the soul...
...machine-gun crew in a hot firefight near the home of Samir Tabet, provost of the American University of Beirut, selected the roof of Tabet's car as a new gun position. Before opening fire, however, they carefully spread newspapers on the roof so the tripod would not scratch the paint...
...that the lab containing this potentially dangerous research be built in the antediluvian Bio Labs, in the middle of one of the nation's most crowded cities. A simple, political, but not necessarily correct decision, would have been to void that choice, and propose a new facility built from scratch...