Word: vanished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once the avoidance begins to work, the patient cares less about the diagnosis. Fear loses its power to instruct. Urgency vanishes before magic. The country glides into a toxic subjectivity. The eyes glaze a little, and clouds close over the glimpse of death. The problem will vanish, the earth will get well. The mind billows off to locate better memories, if it can (old glories, myths of its own innocence, old muscles, resources long since squandered, wars won when the nation was young and saved the world, when its virtue shone and sped by on tail fins). Americans con themselves...
...there be than the mother of the nation failing her people? Having come to power as emblems of national emotions, women leaders like Aquino, Bhutto and Chamorro remain at the mercy of those emotions. Their original strength lay in their symbolism, but without substance, their legacies are bound to vanish...
With thousands of jobs and whole communities at stake, the timber industry asks how the U.S. can afford to save the northern spotted owl and the forest it inhabits. Environmentalists, fearful the rich legacy of old growth will vanish, wonder how we can afford...
...creatures eventually vanish, humans don't have a future, because we will either become extinct or evolve into another life form...
...third explanation, and Poole comes to believe it. He stepped, or was pulled, into an alternative reality. He escaped from the room by walking through a "line," a shimmering envelope that appears where different worlds intersect. Although he is relieved to be back home, Poole suspects that he may vanish again without notice. Sure enough, he does...