Word: vigilantism
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Murdoch surrounds these stark questions with an abundance of local color. She provides a narrator (called N) and the English village of Ennistone (N's town), the site of an ancient hot spring where residents and tourists gather daily to bathe and socialize. Legend maintains that this spa has...
The euphoric effects of cocaine are well known. Heroin kills more of its users, but it acquired a uniquely dark stigma partly because of the backward quality of the opiate high: blissfully heedless, droopy, tuned out, lazy beyond words. Stimulant cocaine, however, is far more in tune with the swaggering...
Since November, the government has fired 40 university professors for being too leftist; 280 more have resigned. Because of increasingly vigilant press censorship, newspapers have not been able to comment on the purges. In one of its most controversial actions, the regime briefly shut down the left-wing Istanbul newspaper...
All loans risk damage; it is one of the donnees of museum practice, and the Met has been scrupulously vigilant in its precautions. But one must balance out the benefits against the risks. How necessary, really, is the Vatican show, apart from fund raising? It is a queer fantasy of...
Far more detailed imagery has come from another type of "remote-sensing" satellite called Landsat. The first of these NASA observatories in the sky, which can "see" in a variety of colors, some of them beyond the range of human vision, was launched in 1973. Since then three more have...