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Seven prominent writers appeared at the event, including Stephen King, author of Needful Things, Carrie, Misery and several other popular horror novels; Jonathan Kozol, author of Rachel and Her Children and Savage Inequalities), John Edgar Wideman, author of Philadelphia Fire, and Jamaica Kincaid, author of Lucy...
...think although kids grow up today watching sitcoms more, they're not as affected by an overwhelming experience because those sitcoms are so carefully controlled. You don't get the kind of horror that you used...
Still, some complain that peanut butter is a bad choice. Bleary-eyed students waking up five minutes before class tell of moments of horror, frozen in doubt whether they are about to eat an acid-laced PB&J or the real thing...
...structure is irreversible, it need not -- indeed, must not -- be precipitous. Imagine a civil war like the one in Yugoslavia, only played out across 11 time zones, with the Russians in the role of the Serbs and nuclear weapons in the background. Yeltsin can help avert such a horror by reassuring Russia's neighbors both inside and outside the old U.S.S.R. that independence won't unleash the forces of tribalism and irredentism...
...NASA's Magellan spacecraft seems to have found one more horror in the nasty landscape: active volcanoes. Last week the space agency released the first detailed map of Venus and the most spectacular images ever made of its surface. The pictures offer the best evidence to date that a planet once presumed dead is actually a lively cauldron of geological change...