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U.S. Air Force Considers B-1 Bomber Fleet’s Retirement
Nixon launched it, Carter killed it and Reagan resurrected it. In its infancy, the Air Force’s B-1 bomber was a quick and dirty military metaphor Republicans wanted to buy weapons to defend the nation from the Soviet Union, and Democrats didn’t.
Making Over Lagos: Turning One of the World’s Worst Cities into One of the Best
In his epic 1976 anthem “Go Slow,” Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti described the traffic in his hometown of Lagos, casting it as a metaphor for Nigeria’s spiritual standstill. “Then your head start to ache because car crush they for your head,” he sang
Behavior: Do People Get Hooked on Sex?
A woman uses a vibrator so intensely that she ends up in an emergency room. A priest steals money from his church’s collection box so that he can pay for prostitutes