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...there were professors for such a thing, they might call this work a "pure comic" - induplicable in any other medium. You must use the visual clues to read the full sequence of events, sending you physically back and forth through the work...
...linguistic aptitude comes a overwhelming fascination with the external world, as if while attempting to perfect her communication skills she had kept a mental list of all the puzzling and troubling circumstances around her. Now that the communicative barrier has been mostly demolished, these queries and quandaries come bursting forth to couple with the cold-fusion energy of most toddlers, transforming peevish monosyllabic terrible-twos into an inquisitive whirling dervishes, ready to drink in the world with one great gulp...
...bill, introduced on Monday, is running a two-week-long gauntlet on the Senate floor, with scheduled votes every three hours on this amendment or that, most of them put forth by reform opponents looking to kill McCain-Feingold by diluting it to death...
Civil war, drought, famine, invasion and tyranny have been tramping back and forth across the weary soil of this miserable nation for so long that the prospects of its recovery, even if the Taliban were to vanish tomorrow, are distant at best. And now the Taliban have outraged world opinion with yet another bizarre and fanatic provocation. The leading Taliban mullah, Mohammed Omar, declared that since the Koran forbade the worship of idols, all idols in the country (meaning, for the most part, Buddhist sculpture made before the arrival of the Muslims in the 8th century) were to be destroyed...
...beginning to confront the climate conundrum the best way they know how--as a business opportunity. John Browne, CEO of BP Amoco, and Mark Moody-Stuart, chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell Group, have both responded to the global-warming threat and set up internal systems that exceed goals put forth in Kyoto. Shell and BP have vowed to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions 10% each--nearly twice the Kyoto target--Shell by 2002, BP by 2010. "This isn't an act of altruism," says Aidan Murphy of Shell. "It's a fundamental strategic issue for our business...