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...crusade must go on in the grass roots. And catastrophic medical costs for some elderly patients, so devastating to their families, must be studied to see if there is not some program that would ease the lives of the old and free the young from this threat of economic ruin...
...loves him most selflessly, resists the idea and is angrily banished from the realm. By the time the ensuing tragedy has played out, the patriarch is a madman wandering the wilderness, all three children are dead, and their world, racked by civil war, is a smoldering ruin...
...imposing their views on American students. But to academics like University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone, the A.I.A.'s work amounts to "ideological espionage." Frank Vandiver, president of Texas A&M, has warned, "One never knows who is being assaulted in this kind of spying. Nothing can ruin a university faster than fear...
Four miles to the east of Nacfa, a once prosperous farm town that is now a bombed-out ruin, rebel fighters carrying Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles stand watch in trenches along a ridge. Across a narrow valley, in places just 60 yards away, Ethiopian troops are dug in. Some of their comrades, identifiable by their bright green uniforms, lie dead in no-man's-land. An exchange of automatic-weapons fire echoes through the valley. Moments later, two Soviet-built Ethiopian MiGs roar overhead in search of the rebels' camouflaged artillery and tank emplacements. Sipping...
...craft facing the comet is covered with a double shield, one made of aluminum and the other of Kevlar, the material used in bulletproof vests. Even then, Giotto is not expected to survive the encounter unharmed. A collision with a large dust particle or small meteoroid could ruin the entire operation. "The biggest danger we face," says Bonnet, "is that the craft's antenna will be knocked out of alignment and we will lose control over...