PANIC ATTACK
"[M]aybe the only thing that could relieve our national anxieties is if something bad happening to us -- something so clarifyingly awful that we're forced to become solemn and still and agree about it."
Stay anxious, my friends.
MAGAZINE 36 -- THE CLIMATE ISSUE
THE DELUGE
"The map imagined the city in the year 2072, after 60 years of rapid sea-level rise totaling 200 feet.
MAGAZINE 56
HOT ZONES
"This map overlays human turmoil -- represented by United Nations data on nearly 64 million 'persons of concern,' whose numbers have tripled since 2005 -- with climate turmoil, represented by data from NASA's Common Sense Climate Index.
Who ever said common sense had anything to do with it?
MAGAZINE 58
PANDORA'S UMBRELLA
"For the past few years, the Harvard professor David Keith has been sketching this vision: Ten Gulfstream jets, outfitted with special engines that allow them to fly safely around the stratosphere at an altitude of 70,000 feet, take off from a runway near the Equator. Their cargo includes thousands of pounds of a chemical compound ... that can be sprayed as a gas from the aircraft ... [I]f things go right, the gas converts to an aerosol of particles that remain aloft and scatter sunlight for two years. The payoff? A slowing of the earth's warming -- for as long as the Gulfstream flights continue.
However, Keith also has grave doubts about "hacking the environment."
A1
TRUMP REACHES BEYOND WEST WING FOR COUNSEL
Stephen Schwarzman
"[He] has counseled him ... to leave in place President Barack Obama's executive order shielding young undocumented immigrants, known as 'Dreamers,' from deportation."
Thanks, Steve.
A1
IN TRYING TO AVOID POLITICS, COMEY SHAPED AN ELECTION
A long article -- five pages and 18 columns long!
"'Should you consider what you're about to do may help elect Donald Trump president?' an adviser asked him. [Comey replied], 'If we ever start considering who might be affected, and in what way, by what we do, we're done,' he told the agents."
Many paragraphs later:
"[Harry Reid]: '[I]t has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government -- a foreign interest openly hostile to the United States.'
Mr. Comey knew the investigation of the Trump campaign was just underway, and keeping with policy, he said nothing about it."
Yeah, I'd say he "shaped" the election.
A8
AFTER ISIS, SMOKING TO FEEL FREE
"Mr. Saleh described the lengths he had taken to find cigarettes under the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and the thrill it had given him to break its rules."
Freedom Fags.
I continue to be flummoxed by The Times insistence on that stupid phrase. Agree on one term (including Daesh which they seem to have dropped) and use it consistently and exclusively. I think we all know what you mean by now.
A10
TUNISIA'S TRUTH-TELLING BEAR PAIN, AND PROMISE
"[H]e was taken to the prison infirmary, where a doctor poured a liter of ether over his groin, burning his genitals."
"[T]he main aim of the commission -- to uncover the truth of human rights abuses, preserve the memory for the nation and help reform the system."
Good luck, Tunisia. You started Arab Spring. Perhaps you can continue to steer your country in the right direction and -- who knows? -- others might follow.
A12
SIX YEARS LATER, FUKUSHIMA HAS ITS CHILDREN BACK
"At the Naraha school, which was being constructed when the disaster hit, workers destroyed a foundation that had just been laid and started over, removing mounds of dirt in an effort to decontaminate the site."
So it's completely safe for the kids, right? You're sure?
I'd feel better if the article had reported that the president of Tokyo Electric had sent his kids there.
A13
CHECHNYA'S ANTI-GAY POGROM: "THEY STARVE YOU. THEY SHOCK YOU."
"Maksim's father threatened to beat him but refrained when his son showed him the bruises he already had. Instead his father said, 'I should kill you.'"
The government just does what society-at-large tells them to do. Like the "honor killings" in Afghanistan and Pakistan, this horror is a "normal" part of their society.
When rights groups try to speak up, they're accused of "Western interference." Can't have these white devils trying to convince you otherwise.
But their satellite dishes beam Ellen into their huts and they just love her.
A18
AMERICAN AIRLINES SUSPENDS WORKER AFTER EPISODE ON PLANE
"Just give me back my stroller please!"
TIME MACHINE
April 23, 1967
50 years ago
Occasionally, I will be posting articles from this date in past years. Today, I go 50 years back to
A FORECAST FOR THE YEAR 2000 (still 34 years away!)
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