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Some of Professor Moschitta's pithy capsulizations of catastrophic subjects actually ring true. No one could dispute his explanation of what is relevant about relativity: "It destroys your sense of space, trashes time, lambasts length, builds bombs and makes the world a much more interesting place, relatively speaking...
...myth that the Soviet Union opposed SDI because they feared the enormous cost to their economy. He went on to say that his opposition to SDI was not based on his fear of its ((offensive)) military potential or of our technological edge. He said, 'We have our own space defense program and our research is making progress in different ways than yours is. In any event,' he added, 'we will be able to evade and overcome any SDI system that the U.S. might eventually deploy...
Overkill is as unavailing as timidity. The 1987 booby prize in the proportion category goes to the Boston Herald. In covering Dukakis' belated admission that his aides had leaked the anti-Biden tapes, the tabloid devoted 18 articles to the subject, consuming all the news space in the first eleven pages of its Oct. 1 edition. With that degree of excess in the system, the groping toward common sense discerned by Stephen Hess clearly...
...admit it. I was a video game whiz-kid in high school. I could vaporize little green monsters, blast space rocks, and shoot up giant space ships better than anybody...
...long, however, for the days when I could go for high scores on my favorite video games, and get them. But they're no longer around. No Pac Man. No Space Invaders. All are now being replaced by "realistic" video games...