Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Within a few pages, Brookner's devoted fans will feel at home. For this is another exercise in the author's specialty, the weaving of a story that is much longer on atmospherics than plot. Thinking about Julia prompts Fay to begin thinking about herself: "I am a simple woman...
Ten years after the first launch of the space shuttle was supposed to initiate an era of routine space flight, NASA still doesn't have its act together. As of this writing, technicians are counting down for a nine-day life-sciences mission, originally scheduled for the mid-1980s. During...
To hear her tell it, much of Ehrenreich's success comes from being the right person at the right time. She says she got a position at PBH mostly "by accident." When a PBH committee member suggested that the group elect a woman to the position of fundraiser as well...
And that's no accident.
But that changed in late October of his first year, when he had an accident which disqualified him from participating in the program. He left a book in an MIT classroom, and he broke his arm after tripping on a driveway chain guard while running across the campus to retrieve...