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...current emergency in the gulf came about because there is now a vacuum of deterrence. Israel's unacknowledged but undisputed nuclear arsenal makes it the only Middle Eastern country within range of Iraq's ballistic missiles that has felt relatively safe. But Jerusalem is not about to offer -- and no Arab state would ever accept -- an Israeli nuclear umbrella over anyone else's head. As for Iran, even if it emerges from its medieval isolation, it will take a long time to regain enough strength to make Saddam think twice before he sends forth his tanks and bombers again...
Escobar's demise would probably not even slow down coke production. Rodriguez Gacha's death last December created a power vacuum, which a new, even more aggressive generation of drug merchants is vying to fill...
Gentle, indeed. Scientists estimate that photons of sunlight falling on an area the size of a football field exert a pressure equal to the weight of a marble. Yet in the vacuum of space this tiny force is sufficient to accelerate the sailship...
...Martian landscape and domed cities are good, but some may mind that basic physics, chemistry and planetary geology are completely ignored. One example of Total Recall's revised laws of nature: bad guys die instantly in a vacuum, but good guys live long enough to be rescued. Another: melting ice releases oxygen...
...suspenders, white shirt and a hat, pushes a mower across a lush lawn just yards from the elite, whites-only Greensboro Country Club. Downtown, as professionals head home at night from glistening glass office buildings, an army of blacks -- so-called invisible people -- arrives to empty the trash and vacuum the floors. One leading white liberal lapses, unconsciously perhaps, into talk about "coloreds" and "black boys...