Word: accidentally
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A GOOD FRIEND of mine was driving drunk late one night and split his car in two. He was thrown 20 feet out the back of his vehicle, landed in some bushes and 10 minutes later walked up to a person surveying the scene and in a stupor asked if...
Yet, the shiny appeal of such fragments--like slogans, logos, celebrated epigrams--leads us to swallow them whole without looking inside to the essential emptiness. Here, the fragmentation in Barthes' writing is not deliberate, not a formal statement but rather an unfortunate accident.
The breakdown temporarily frustrated the eleven-country European consortium's continuing effort to demonstrate its rocket's reliability and clinch an even larger share of the lucrative satellite-launching business. Ariane has been the free world's only active satellite carrier since the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger on...
Until January's accident, the space shuttle had been scheduled to carry aloft seven satellites this year and 19 in 1987. That total included two commercial satellites in 1986 and six next year, at a launching fee of up to $40 million each. Since NASA has scrapped that plan, several...
John Jobes vividly remembers the day in 1971 when he first met his future wife Nancy. Both were high school students in Parsippany, N.J. "She was a very independent, headstrong, loving person," he recalls. They married a few years after graduation, when John was working as a machinist and Nancy...