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Article: IS ANYTHING FOREVER?
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 10, 1989
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CopyrightCopyright 1989 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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In this day when everything seems to break down the day after the
warranty expires, it would be nice to know that something lasts
forever. Unfortunately, science seems determined to remove the last
vestiges of permanence from theuniverse.
Stars burn out. Continents split and drift. Entire races of
animals become extinct. Just ask the dinosaurs. Everywhere around
us, or so it seems, atoms are falling apart -- radon, uranium,
strontium 90 -- zapping us with radiation. There's a hole in the
ozone. Greenhouse warming threatens to melt the polar icecaps. The
Rockies will crumble, Gibraltar will tumble, they're only made of
clay, and -- the song notwithstanding -- not even love is here to
stay.
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