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...wild and crazy “Checkblast” assaulted the room with a barrage of solos and unison melodies that set eyes and mouths wide open with awe. Chick Corea, Ric Fierabracci, Dave Weckl, Eric Marienthal and Frank Gambale, a veritable dream team of jazz, were in full blast as the show took off and To the Stars, the ensemble’s new album, marvelously unfolded before the eager crowd...
...Scenarios of a terrorist strike in the strait vary, but they usually involve hijacking a tanker carrying chemicals, oil or liquefied natural gas. Blowing up an entire tanker is difficult?crude oil does not catch fire easily, for example?but it's not too hard to blast a hole in one so that its cargo is released, creating a maritime disaster. There's also the economic impact. When the oil tanker Limburg was attacked off the coast of Yemen in October 2002, insurance costs for calls to the country's ports rose by some $150,000 per ship. Such...
...great play by [Taylor],” said Crimson captain Noah Welch, who scored his team’s second goal with a top-shelf, power-play blast. “And that’s what we needed...
...competition in space liners, just as its predecessor inspired the early airlines. Imaginations ran wild. The Canadian Da Vinci Project wanted to launch its rocket from 80,000 ft. after lifting it there with a reusable helium balloon. John Carmack, creator of the Doom video games, intended to blast his wife into suborbital space with a new kind of engine that runs on alcohol. (Carmack's prototype crashed; Da Vinci's effort was hampered by missing parts...
...hitchhiked from Iowa City, Iowa, to St. Louis, Mo., for Game 1. I slept in the railroad station and bought a $3 standing-room ticket for behind home plate. The Sox tied the game in the ninth, and Rudy York won it in the 10th with a blast to the last row of the bleachers--and I was the only one in the park yelling. I'm happy for today's Boston kids, but most of them have never known the character-building advantages of defeat. I've developed enough character to last the rest of my life, with some...