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Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.
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israeli-palestinian-conflict
sleep
volcano
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Haruki Murakami |
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The scientific world of the time was in the midst of a terrible ferment, with discoveries and realizations coming at an unseemly rate. To many in the ranks of the conservative and the devout, the new theories of geology and biology were delivering a series of hammer blows to mankind's self-regard. Geologists in particular seemed to have gone berserk, to have thrown off all sense of proper obeisance to their Maker... Mankind, it seemed, was now suddenly rather - dare one say it? - insignificant. He may not have been, as he had eternally supposed, specially created.
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geography
geology
god
science
volcanism
volcano
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Simon Winchester |
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My volcano of compress anger was about to erupt in school, and it would take more than five years for my molten lava to be brought under control, which was through the loss of my sight. However, shouldn't there be a way of detecting and reaching out to kids like me before there is a massive problem? Why wait until there is a devastating eruption before we intervene?
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at-risk-students
blindness
compress-anger
detecting
devastating
eruption
intervention
massive-problems
molten-lava
school-fights
volcano
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Drexel Deal |