From bubonic plague in the middle ages to bird flu or Sars in the 21st century, infectious diseases have spread horrifyingly fast in cities, where people live in close proximity and sometimes crowded together.
Julianne Moore is going to be a big player this year, with nominations for Maps to the Stars (a horrifyingly brutal satire that bizarrely comes into the comedy/musical section) and as a support in Still Alice.
Although stroke is associated with old age, about 20% occur under the age of 40, sometimes to teenagers and, more horrifyingly, to young mothers.
That's twice recently where a Foreign Policy blogger (Steven Walt being the other) has violated the Rules of Blog: never admit you don't know how some horrifyingly complex situation will turn out, and always demand immediate, dramatic action.
From the ground, the detail becomes horrifyingly clear: houses smashed like broken matchsticks; cars tossed on their sides like discarded toys; power-lines trailing through a mass of rubble.Even in an area of the country known as "Tornado Alley", this week's twisters were exceptional.
At Jinja, not far from the capital, the HSMF was smashed by artillery fire, and Alice fled on a bicycle.The remnants of her soldiers mustered under Joseph Kony, an ex-altar boy who claimed to be her cousin metamorphosed into the horrifyingly violent Lord's Resistance Army, which continues to kill, rape, pillage and abduct children in today's Uganda.
"The revolution that was supposed to modernise the world," Alma Guillermoprieto writes, "is now treasured as a timeless relic by tourists from a world all too horrifyingly modern".
But the apparatus needed to hurl things fast enough to interest today's physicists is huge and horrifyingly expensive.
Horrifyingly, seismologists think that for India the worst is probably yet to come.
FELIX SALMON explains the mighty rolling breaker (ah, to be a surfer on that wave) that is Netflix's share value over the past 18 months in a fashion simultaneously pithy and horrifyingly empty.Netflix...was for a very long time a steamroller which would just flatten anybody who tried to short it.
But he argues that there are also examples in history of rape being used strategically, to humiliate and to terrorise, such as the Moroccan regulares in Spain's civil war.Related items Correction: The Indian armyJan 20th 2011As the reporting of rape has improved, the scale of the crime has become more horrifyingly apparent (see table).
