Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TILL BOREDOM DO US PART...
However, the most indirect, though by no means benign, gift of the Khan was the plague. Originating in the jungles of southern China and Burma, bubonic plague traveled with Mongol armies and then from caravan to caravan till it reached the Crimea in 1347. From there it would take a third of all Europeans. Bereft of labor and talent, the fledgling nation states were pressed to maximize tax collection, bureaucracy and state control of the force of arms, leading to the heightened competitiveness of the West just as Europe's ships sailed for the riches of a distant empire...
...squared. Just wait till you hear about land blimps. As more and more sites promise faster and faster deliveries (check out urbanfetch.com or kozmo.com which delivers videos, ice cream and best-selling novels to your door in under an hour in five cities), experts expect the arrival of what Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future calls "convenience stores on wheels," vehicles on a permanent cruise between warehouses and your garage...
...Pacific. They seemed always to be the ones who contracted the strangest diseases. The greatest times I can remember ever having are those early days of Polaroid (which included Brendan Greaves '00 of the Red Essentials). We would drive around Arizona with the top down singing and playing harmonica till the sun rose. Keep an eye out for the upcoming Luksuosowa record (also with Brendan Greaves), several of the tracks have already been licensed to "The Price is Right" as background music...
...easy to fear, hard to attack, hard sometimes even to live with. Throughout his rise to power, it was the story that could both win people over and shut people down. Who among his adversaries wanted to answer the question, "So just what were you doing from 1967 till 1973, while he was being maimed and tortured in service to his country...