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Space: the final frontier. Night and day, it is the one thing that that all human being share, aside from the approximately 1.4 percent of our genetic material that is common to all humans but not to chimpanzees. Enveloping us all in its vacuum-powered embrace, it is the massive and unwieldy momma of our own mother earth. And now, as advances in technology make the outer limits increasingly accessible (even the Canadians have a space program!), we must all brace ourselves for the impending big bang of twenty-first century consumerism: advertising in outer space...
...baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...risen. The creation of designer Paul Bonomini, the 7-m-tall humanoid figure - which looks like a menacing mechanical skeleton escaped from some Tim Burton movie - weighs 3 tons and is made of 553 pieces of electrical and electronic waste, including 95 small household appliances (such as vacuum cleaners, toasters and irons), 55 larger consumer items (TVs, video and DVD players, camcorders), 35 pieces of computer and mobile-phone equipment, 12 washing machines, 10 refrigerators and six microwave ovens...
...entire staff arrives at 6 p.m. and divides up to scrub, mop, and vacuum Larsen Hall...
...incident started. Reporters pointedly reminded readers and viewers that the new restrictions made it difficult to confirm their stories. In Johannesburg, the Foreign Correspondents Association strongly denounced the restrictions. The F.C.A. warned that forcing the media to operate within such stringent guidelines could create "a news vacuum in which rumors and distortions, from whatever quarter, will prevail...