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...There've already been four successful flights of SpaceShipOne, which is the basic technology. People have been extremely skeptical about almost everything I've ever launched. I think we've proven that we deliver on things we say we're going to deliver on. And we certainly will deliver on this...
...precisely Rowling's lack of sentimentality, her earthy, salty realness, her refusal to buy into the basic clichés of fantasy, that make her such a great fantasy writer. The genre tends to be deeply conservative--politically, culturally, psychologically. It looks backward to an idealized, romanticized, pseudofeudal world, where knights and ladies morris-dance to Greensleeves. Rowling's books aren't like that. They take place in the 1990s--not in some never-never Narnia but in modern-day Mugglish England, with cars, telephones and PlayStations. Rowling adapts an inherently conservative genre for her own progressive purposes. Her Hogwarts...
...basic set of uses right now is subscribing to newsfeeds and podcasts, which are files embedded in news feeds,” Palfrey said. Podcasting is primarily the transmission of mainstream radio shows and grassroots audio blogs using RSS feeds...
...tournament’s basic format did not work to Ogunwole’s advantage...
...basic details of the massacre all well-known in the wider world, and have recently been reprised in great detail during the ongoing trial of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic at the Hague. On July 11, 1995, Serb forces overran the small eastern Bosnian town, which they had kept under siege for more than three years. Less than a week later, over 8,000 Bosnian Muslims taken prisoner, many just teenage boys, were dead, their bodies dumped in deep forests surrounding the enclave. Even today, some two thirds of the victims remain unaccounted for, buried in mass graves...