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Unfortunately, Kopit has got it all backwards. He should be the one on his knees begging the audience to "stop me before I write again." After a few blissful months in which the obsessional torrent of plays stories and movies on the nuclear issue seemed to have been staunched, the American Repertory Theater's decision to resurrect this once-flopped problem play shows that the hypnotic fascination nuclear war exercises on intellectuals is as strong as ever...
...however, heavy rains and melting snow have turned the Rio Grande into a treacherous torrent with crests of 8 ft. in some normally shallow areas, slowing the flood of illegal immigrants. While U.S. Border Patrol officers in the El Paso sector normally nab some 600 river crossers a day in December, the daily arrest rate fell to 450 last month as fewer Mexicans ventured into the water...
...about 10% of the mass that falls on it into radiation. If you toss on a marshmallow, you get out the energy of a Hiroshima bomb." A trillion-ton marshmallow every second makes an even bigger splash; the stupendous energy from this perpetual explosion radiates outward | as a steady torrent of X rays...
...mass communications media are increasingly devoted to health and medicine. Advertising, public relations and the media together collaborate in a kind of "medico-media hype," as every new research finding or experimental treatment spawns an immediate press conference and a torrent of publicity. With each month, a new disease comes into vogue--osteoporosis, premenstrual syndrome, Alzheimer's disease and, of course, AIDS...
...Nazi concentration camp in 1945, a gaunt and grieving survivor made what now seems an uncharacteristic vow. He promised that he would not speak for at least ten years of the horrors he had witnessed. The silence was kept, but when the words finally emerged, they came in a torrent. Novels, essays, speeches and lectures all spoke tirelessly of the need to rescue the Holocaust from the silence of history. Last week Elie Wiesel's words of witness were honored with the Nobel Prize for Peace, which carries with it an award of $287,769.78. From Oslo, the Nobel Committee...