Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shadow of that escalation falls longest in the farming areas near the contras' southern training camps. Already, as many as 20,000 peasants have been driven from their homes by the increased cross-border shelling, and many of them are now committed to their own kind of limbo -- living in one-room shacks, unsettled by the fighting yet hardly supported by the government. All around are further casualties of war. In the sunbaked border town of Danli, the local coffee-growers' association estimates that its members have lost $15 million in four years. The farm owners have seen their land...
...Snatching the Bible, which he had once disdained, he read the first words his eyes fell upon: St. Paul's admonition in Romans 13 to abandon wanton living and "put on the Lord Jesus Christ." Instantly, he later wrote, "a light of certainty pierced my heart and all the shadow of doubt vanished." From that moment on, he was a zealous Christian...
...next time you walk in the shadow of glass and steel skyscrapers that tower over cities from Boston to Baton Rouge, mutter a little prayer of thanks--or even a curse--to Harvard's Graduate School of Design...
...criminals create the shadow planet, or does the shadow planet create them? Whatever. The planet thrives, where even Ozzie and Harriet's little boy, grown middle-aged and off camera, is said to have floated high on cocaine en route to dying. It is as if the American mind itself were divided between clarity and dreams, freedom and addiction...
...shadow world sits like the darker brother, locked hiding in his room all day, seeing God dance in the soaps. What goes on in that mind, in that room? To begin to know that might be a way to demystify the -- what? -- plague, curse, disease, tragedy, normality of drugs. The center of the wanting mind reaches toward and creates every element of the drug world. Is one supposed to lecture that mind, eradicate it, hate it, arrest it, weep for its plight...