Word: apartement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...games and then I just fell apart," Morrissey said. "I think it's because I'm reaching a new plateau and I don't think I can beat these people...
...group of writers led by playwright Harold Pinter presented a petition in Rushdie's behalf at No. 10 Downing Street. Author Anthony Burgess, writing in the newspaper the Independent, stated the Western position precisely: "What a secular society thinks of the Prophet Muhammad is its own affair, and reason, apart from law, does not permit aggressive interference of the kind that has brought shame and death to Islamabad," where the rioting took several lives. "If Muslims want to attack the Christian or humanistic vision of Islam contained in our literature," Burgess observed, "they will find more vicious travesties than...
Baker even picks apart the layout of a CVS drug-store. He addresses not only the physical set-up, but also the veiled meaning of the various products--"things were for sale whose use demanded nudity and privacy...
Ever since a Soviet nuclear-powered satellite broke apart over a remote region of northern Canada in 1978, the use of atomic reactors in space has been highly controversial. Once again the debate over nukes in orbit has heated up. Last April the Soviets lost control of another nuclear satellite, raising fears that it would fall to earth before they managed to boost the reactor into a safer, high-altitude orbit. Then, at a scientific conference in New Mexico last month, the Soviets said they had begun putting a new generation of powerful reactors in space and were even interested...
...young, it is spinning almost unimaginably fast. Its "day" is only one two-thousandth of a second long, and while the earth's equator rotates at about 1,000 m.p.h., the pulsar's is moving at more than 200 million m.p.h. By rights, the pulsar should fly apart, but it is so dense -- a teaspoon of it would weigh 300,000 tons on earth -- that its gravity holds it together. Says Richard Muller of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, a member of the discovery team: "We can't help being astounded by what we are seeing...