Word: seene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that I shouldn't have seen it coming. I have lost Blankie several times since third grade, when my five-year-old brother--acting in vengeance against something I swear I didn't do--stole my beloved and threw him in the trash...
...West, that mixes Chinese myth and actuality. And next month will bring The Great Black Dragon Fire, by veteran journalist Harrison Salisbury. The fire was not fiction; it occurred in 1987, and it burned a Manchurian forest "so large that, like China's Great Wall, it could have been seen from the moon...
...ever an American artist had seemed dead and buried a decade ago, along ! with the movement he had led, that man was surely Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975). True, his huge murals writhing with buckskinned, blue-jeaned and gingham-clad Americans were still to be seen in situ in the Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City, and the Truman Library, Independence, Mo.; his name might still be invoked in Kansas City, where his latter years were spent; and most students of American art history knew that he had been the teacher (and to no small extent, the substitute father) of Jackson...
...looking objects and move them as fast as they would move in real life, has come of age. Architects are using 3-D technology to let clients walk through buildings before they are constructed. Scientists employ it to visualize phenomena too fast, too small or too explosive to be seen firsthand. Industry is relying on it to speed up design and production cycles...
...perhaps, or attending a PTA meeting or just sitting at home watching L.A. Law? If so, you did not realize how close you came to disaster. While you were blissfully unaware of the danger, a huge asteroid whizzed past the earth, coming closer than any other such heavenly body seen in 52 years. If the giant clump of rock -- half a mile across by one estimate -- had hit the planet, it would have packed the wallop of thousands of H-bombs and possibly killed millions of people. If it had come down in an ocean, it could have triggered tidal...