My life is better because of microwavable meals. They taste good and fill me up, and they’re ready in 5 minutes. Still, I wouldn’t want to have one every time I eat: I’d miss out on the joys of fresh food and the hard-to-measure satisfaction of meal preparation. Switching to an all-microwave diet would rob me of my humanity, making me feel soulless and uninspired. And yet, America has become a Microwave Economy.
On a summer day in July 1972, the skies over Kabul were experiencing unusual turbulence, and the Indian President V.V. Giri’s aircraft, a Russian TU-124 called Rajdoot, trembled furiously in the raging winds. Giri was preparing to land in Afghanistan, but made a nervy entrance. The receiving party, which included King Zahir Shah and the Indian ambassador, watched the aircraft struggle to come to a halt. The plane veered off the runway and disappeared into a giant cloud of dust. They allowed themselves to imagine, for a moment, that the worst had happened.
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