Oct 12 2019
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS (page 1) Delivered by William Blakemore at the graduation ceremonies of the class of 1974 of the American Community School of Beirut, Lebanon, held in the American University of Beirut Assembly Hall/Chapel, Friday, June 21, 1974 at 9:00 A.M. Thank you Mr. Usellis. Parents, teachers, friends and guests, and especially graduating …
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Aug 17 2018
The Trump analogy Dear editor: Here’s a make-believe but often real nightmare scenario: You have just received the terrible and terrifying news, “You have cancer.” After biopsying your mass, your surgeon wants to refer you to a medical oncologist (a cancer treatment specialist). Many are available in your area. He then asks you, “Do you …
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Aug 28 2017
Maybe Trump is a kind of cry for help from the Earth, a human flare By Frankie Boyle, Sunday 27 August 2017 04.00 EDT So are we heading for a Mad Max-style future? I don’t think so. After having lived through Donald Trump we’ll surely just call him Max. Trump is behaving so strangely, …
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Jul 02 2017
In Norway, partying with the engineers By Garrison Keillor, June 27, 2017 at 2:28 pm A splendid week in Norway and now it’s good to be back home, driving around town in my old beat-up Volvo and listening to The Drifters. Norway is a land of bicycles and public transit, lean healthy long-legged people …
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Oct 05 2016
Another Deadly Drone Mistake: At What Point Do We Say Enough? By Ted Gup, October 3, 2016 It was an obscure item last week that drew little media attention. An apartment building in Afghanistan’s remote Nangarhar province was apparently hit by an American drone strike, killing at least fifteen civilians and injuring thirteen more. …
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Feb 07 2015
Visitor from space By Donald Cunningham, February 7, 2015 Recently, our planet had a visitor from outer space, and I don’t mean Klaatu. It was what the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has labeled “2004 BL86,” a giant asteroid, passing just 745,000 miles from the Earth. That’s about three times the distance we …
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Oct 31 2014
It looks like some kind of sci-fi blob from outer space, but it’s actually a high-speed photograph of a nuclear explosion. It was captured less than 1 millisecond after the detonation using a rapatronic camera, which is capable of exposure times as brief as 10 nanoseconds (one nanosecond is one billionth of a second). The photograph …
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