Word: ashli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haunting places, if we read the news of the latest massacre in Kosovo and see more than geopolitics at work, if we suspect that saints may sit beside us in the library and devils may drive BMWs and work in the pizza parlor and leave no telltale trail of ash as they go about their work, if we just find ourselves asking questions we haven't had occasion to ask before, we will know more than we did three weeks ago, and be wiser...
...Oxford historian, Garton Ash is the author of six books, including History of the Present, which will be published by Random House this fall...
...wind. But with help from their wind tunnel, the brothers amassed more data on wing design than anyone before them, compiling tables of computations that are still valid today. And with guidance from this scientific study, they developed the powered 1903 Flyer, a skeletal flying machine of spruce, ash and muslin, with a wingspan of 40 ft. and an unmanned weight of just over...
...find. Her team was re-exploring a site in Tanzania called Laetoli--40 years after Louis had incorrectly assumed that the absence of tools there implied that hominid fossils would not be found--when they discovered a trail of remarkably clear ancient hominid footprints impressed and preserved in volcanic ash. It was a stunning glimpse of the world 3.6 million years ago. If only Louis had lived...
...course, since my cap has that precious NY, isn't it about time for Mets GM Steve Phillips to give Ash a call? I hear Ash just picked up a beer-guzzling, Metallica-thrashing, southpaw who went 18-4 last season and really can't afford...