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Joseph Sobran, a nationally syndicated columnist and National Review editor, said, "All freedoms are not going to vanish just because you proscribe the extremes," adding that the same expansive reading of the First Amendment that allows "Deep Throat" would, if applied to the Second Amendment, permit everyone to wear a handgun...
...portraits vanish...
...There will also be other environmental nightmares. As man invades their wild habitats and pollutants rain down on them, 500,000 to 2 million species of plants and animals may die off in the next two decades. Rare plants needed to create new blight-and pest-resistant hybrids will vanish. Paradoxically, some environmental problems may be the consequence of the best of intentions. As farmers try to squeeze more food out of their fields by irrigation, the soil's salinity will increase, thus impairing its ability to sustain crops. Less predictable, but no less frightening: a possible global heating...
...orotund manner, to Harry Jr., who brings all of the old tricks, and a few new ones, to Broadway. The new, modernized Blackstone slices a woman in half with a 36-inch rotary saw; he makes an elephant disappear; he turns a lady into a tiger. Birds vanish, and an eagle suddenly materializes. A glowing light bulb leaves the stage and floats up the aisles, with the magician close behind, spinning a hoop around it to show that there are no hidden wires. Thirteen grown men, volunteers all, tie Blackstone into knots - which he breaks faster than...
...granitic force by Michael Kevin) begins on an elegiac note. He recalls sitting beside a wintry campfire and hearing a gnarled veteran of the receding frontier say: "In a few years, the railroad will come all along the Yellowstone ... the wild riders and the vacant lands are about to vanish forever " But for a boy of 19, there were plenty of adventures left. In a yeasty anecdotal vein, Remington tells tales of canoeing shallow rivers and being spilled into the foaming rapids...