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...tundra for miles with megawatts of yellow industrial light. Steam belches from plants eight stories high; flames shoot from natural-gas flares; and bulldozers the size of houses grind back and forth along 500 miles of roads that link the 170 drilling sites along the coast. Five thousand men--and a few women--work here, pumping 1.3 million bbl. a day down the trans-Alaska pipeline. The scale of the facilities swallows them up, and the oil plants seem almost deserted...
...Jeff tells them that "as of right now, you are completely cut off from the outside world." Actually, they're on a 55,000-acre cattle station only a hundred miles or so west of the Queensland coast, over what's known as the Great Dividing Range. Travel another thousand miles or so further west and you'll be in the true center of Australia...
...more than any other time during the year, we want to be one half of that well-dressed couple insouciantly holding hands as they traipse off to their romantic evening. We want the idyllic romance, the legendary love, that state of bliss so eloquently described on a thousand frilly paper hearts. And if we haven't attained this state of perfect ardor, we are well-inclined to sit at home and curse the very institution of couplehood and romantic love...
...hire an experimental physicist, you might need four or five thousand square feet," he said at University Hall after a faculty meeting...
...will make our child's life better, whatever we may believe the good life to be. It may involve being exceptional; it may involve being average; it may involve being a happy pig or an unhappy Socrates. But these decisions are no more (and no less) complex than a thousand other ethical concerns. To refrain from them simply because the buzzword "genetic engineering" is involved does not guarantee a child an "open future" but rather a random future, a Russian roulette future. No child is made more "free" if his or her hair color, number of limbs or even sexual...