Dangerous Thoughts

In this highly personal memoir, Yuri Orlov, celebrated scientist and human rights activist, recalls his life in pre-Glasnost Russia. He describes his days as a young man under Stalin, the persecution of his friends Sakharov and Scharansky, and his release from exile, in the famous spy for dissident swap arranged by the U.S., which generated international headlines.

Dangerous Thoughts is a collection of Gary Jason’s most popular and provocative articles from newspapers and political magazines, nearly three hundred in all. A few of these were published as far back as the later 1970s, but most of them are of recent vintage. There are eight broad topics the articles cover, and are gathered together in chapters accordingly. The first is school reform, and the critical need for school choice. The second is environmentalism and its negative impact on rational energy policy. The third is demographic change the continuing need for immigrants (legal, and within reasonable limits). The fourth centers around the continuing need for free trade. The fifth is the need for entitlement program reform. The sixth is the need for various political reforms, and the seventh various economic ones. The eighth is the divide between intellectual elites and ordinary citizens. A final chapter includes various miscellaneous pieces.

In the erotic thriller Dangerous Thoughts, a small-time journalist stumbles onto a big scandal, ultimately immersing himself in a harrowing mystery that could spell his demise. Jake Alexander is a tired, middle-aged newspaper reporter ready for some excitement. When he begins to investigate a political candidate's suicide, he is unknowingly cast into a web of deceit, murder, and blackmail. After he meets the beautiful Isabella Genovese, he is lost in an unyielding fatal attraction to her that eventually leads him down a path of chaos and danger. As Genovese and Alexander arrange one lustful rendezvous after another, he realizes she is a major player in a blackmailing scheme, but Alexander has only one goal-to free his love from a life of servitude. A multitude of murders occur, and as Alexander attempts to save Genovese, himself, and a loyal detective from peril, he must face a showdown with Conrad Poppa, the ultimate villain. Alexander's steadfast curiosity and treacherous thoughts lead him into deadly predicaments that are nearly impossible to escape and straight into the twisted clutches of a psychopathic killer.

Their planet was ripped apart from under their feet. When Deka and Kylac wake up, they discover Archeons are dead, and the portals have closed without warning, leaving hundreds of planets without links to other worlds.Rel's destruction touched every planet in the contacted universe. Without the portals, entire civilizations hang in the balance, and Deka and Kylac are the only two who can make spacetime spheres. The raptor and the fox travel from world to world, repairing the damage the disaster caused, preventing civilization from collapsing. Floating islands drifting through the toxic atmosphere of a gas giant-offworlders are stranded there, just barely clinging to life. A planet of raised platforms made of growing rock that elevate the people above the flammable algae on the surface-everything is falling apart, and where are the people? A world of giant insects-researchers have gone missing, and they have been injected with mind-altering venom. A planet of salamanders and birdlike reptiles who relied on portals for food-facing starvation, the reptiles revert to hunting the salamanders.What could have destroyed an entire planet?What could have reached across the light years to kill so many Archeons at the same time?Did anyone else survive?

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