Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Quincunx by Charles Palliser. Roughly half a million words long, this extravagant narrative is a faithful re-creation of the 19th century British novel -- lots of them, including Bleak House, Great Expectations and Jane Eyre. Miraculously, this bald-faced imitation works wonders. The author makes the distant world of Victorian fiction, with its careful plotting and moral punctiliousness, as gripping as tomorrow's whodunit...
...People's Deputies met. Five republics in effect declined to participate: Lithuania and Armenia would not send official delegations; Latvians and Estonians attended only as observers; most of the delegates from Moldova (as the Moldavian republic now calls itself) walked out in a complicated dispute over the creation of independent ethnic states within that small republic...
...they could command at home. In the role of contractors, importers, landlords and bankers, many Kuwaitis found themselves members of a privileged minority set above the expatriate work force. A law enacted in the late 1950s required foreign businessmen to take Kuwaiti partners, another risk-free method of wealth creation that made millionaires of many overnight...
...also reconsider their tendency to favor more government regulation as the answer to most ecological problems. In Washington State voters rejected a ballot initiative that would have put curbs on development, partly because they feared it would mean new government intrusions into their lives. Regulations that lead to the creation of new bureaucracies are not attractive to citizens who are fed up with the inefficiency of government red tape. "People want to be more certain and careful about how their money is spent to clean up the environment," says Sheldon Kamieniecki, an associate professor at the University of Southern California...
...child is a precise metaphysician. He (or she) writes down name, house number, street, town, state, ZIP code, country . . . and then, to be exact, "Planet Earth, the Solar System, the Galaxy, the Universe." Creation is an onion with many skins, all layering outward from the child's self. If he gets lost in the galaxy, he can find the way back, can fly through the concentric circles to his own house -- from outermost remoteness to innermost home. Nostalgia means the nostos algos, the agony to return home. What got broken long ago in Ernest was his charts and instruments...