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...fact, facing up to the finality of death is a liberation; it makes life itself more precious: "The idea that death is not absolute consoles the childish individual, but prevents society from being adult. If it were proved that there is an afterlife, life would be irretrievably spoilt. It would be pointless; and suicide, a virtue...
Dogs & Hyenas. Actually, as onetime Finance Minister Smith knows well, Rhodesia's whites have precious little to gain from any form of independence...
...development in a slum area will only slowly inspire reconstruction of the other slums around it. And it has been 30 years or more for instance, since Philadelphia's upper-and middle-class families considered living in the center of town. Until Bacon started its renewal, there was precious little reason why they should. But Bacon and other U.S. planners are, and properly should be, thinking in terms of the long future, to make the city attractive and stimulating again?creating new neighborhoods, bringing old ones back to life, seeding the streets with sudden green, opening up unexpected views...
...classed the Chinese explosion as "weak," meaning its energy was equal to about 20 kilotons of chemical explosive. But only the testers themselves can now be sure whether the low power was intentional, to save precious fissionable material, or a result of poor design and construction. Radioactive particles collected by high-flying airplanes may soon provide an answer, however, for the particles prattle all sorts of secrets: whether the fissionable material used was plutonium or U-235; how much of it was wasted; whether an attempt was made to get fusion (hydrogen bomb) action...
Wasps in Amber. With casual vividness, the old dandy sketches Hoby the Bootmaker, an insolent St. James Street shopkeeper who sneered at every customer up to and including the Iron Duke himself; Colonel Kelly of the First Foot Guards, a grand dandy so proud of his precious, gleaming boots that he burned to death trying to save them from a fire; and muscular Dan Mackinnon, who "used to amuse his friends by creeping over the furniture like a monkey." In Lisbon with Lord Byron, Mackinnon spied two nude Portuguese beauties at their morning ablutions across from his hotel...