Word: strangerness
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...appears unthinkable. Since Kaliningrad, opposition leaders have gone back to denouncing one another. "There is a fear of competition between them," says Valeriya Novodvorskaya, a prominent Soviet dissident and a vocal critic of Putin's rule. First arrested by the KGB for her activism in 1969, Novodvorskaya is no stranger to the opposition, but she is wary of the latest flare-up in public resentment. "A street protest is not a grocery store," she says. "You go there to demand your freedom, not to ask for more sausage on your plate...
...national cheer circuit is a rough-and-tumble establishment. High-stakes competitions take place across the country in pressure-packed environments, to which Amya [pronounced Ah-Mye-Ah] Giger is no stranger...
...Crazies” is an intense, enjoyable, and surprisingly clever vision of a zombie apocalypse in rural America that accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do; raise your blood pressure, clench your teeth, and make you high-five the stranger next to you. Maximizing its low-budget special effects, “The Crazies” successfully remakes the 1973 George A. Romero cult classic of the same name by stringing together a series of frightening and gory situations while simultaneously—and unexpectedly—presenting uncommonly deep themes for the genre...
...nice thing was that I live in a small town, so people got used to it. It was only if I saw a stranger would I have to go through the whole rigmarole of pointing to the sign and writing on the dry-erase board. Usually people would say, "Still no voice?" and I'd nod and they'd be like, "Sorry, man!" I kept to limited circles...
Chile, however, is no stranger to major earthquakes. In 1960, a 9.5-magnitude temblor - the strongest quake ever recorded by scientific instruments - hit the Chilean city of Valdivia, killing nearly 2,000 people. And although today's quake is the strongest in the last half-century to hit Chile, the country has had 13 quakes of 7.0 or higher on the Richter scale since 1973. That geologic history helps explain why building codes are far tougher in Chile than they are in Haiti, which should help limit the number of casualties from today's quake. So far, 147 people have...