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...compatriot Federico Fellini sketched modern anomie and aimlessness with a cartoonist's quick, broad slashes, Antonioni brought Atomic Age anomie to a kind of life with delicate bush strokes; he was the fastidious, mandarin un-Fellini. For a time, he was unlike anyone, until many directors saw that trail he had blazed and started treading...
...scientist Bernard Vonnegut, brother of author Kurt. Countries quickly adopted it. Over the three decades following its introduction, the U.S. spent many millions of dollars a year on the technology. It was even used for a while during the Vietnam War to increase rainfall on the Ho Chi Minh Trail to hamper supply movement. By the 1980s, however, the science of cloud seeding acquired a snake-oil whiff, as disreputable private companies tried hawking it to desperate, drought-ridden communities. Within the decade, it had fallen out of favor...
...such donations. Specially designed ATMs at church will help document such spur-of-the-moment cash gifts, as well as planned giving. Also as a result of the new IRS rule, credit card donations and tithing are likely to increase too because such electronic fund transfers leave a paper trail...
Even here, though, there may be grounds for a hopeful outlook. Boys at the fourth- and eighth-grade levels are showing modest improvement in reading and now trail their female classmates by slightly smaller margins than before. If that's a sign of improved teaching and parental focus on reading, then we ought to expect gains in the higher grades soon...
...Speaking to crowds outside the AKP headquarters in Ankara, hoarse from the campaign trail, Erdogan called the result a victory for Turkey's democracy. He promised to continue with Turkey's E.U. membership drive, told secularist voters that he "understood them too" and, quoting Ataturk, said he would seek national unity...