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...begin burning hydrogen in its outer layers and gradually expand-perhaps to 100 times its present size-turning into a giant red globe that will fill most of the sky when seen from earth. Unfortunately, man will not be around to see this spectacular view. The expanding sun will boil away the oceans, melt rock and heat the earth's surface to 4,000 degrees F. It will leave man's dwelling place a lifeless inferno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: The Prodigal Sun | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...Heavy Metal Kid and other famous folk heroes prefer a small shallow frying pan for boiling so you can scrape it clean. Of Course you need your bag, and a belt to tie your arm. Boil it down. Already the smell of no! is in the air, a low hot smell, the dull excitement and fever of being alone with something wrong man, you know this isn't right, but is that right? Like probing your asshole in the bathrub, or like wanting to vomit, wanting to taste it, or like hurting, an animal slowly. Degrade and debase all that...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: Last Stop. | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...needle clean? If you haven't been too nervous, if you haven't forgotten, if you aren't jumping from foot to foot, then the calmness of extreme pathology has come over you, the worm of murder in your mouth, then you remembered to bolt the door, to boil the stick; what a laugh you have, man! What a weird cat would like the way you laugh! Colors mean nothing to you; the flying Byrds, the opening Doors, the Rolling Stones, they are nothing at all for you--that's it! Here it is. Welcome...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: Last Stop. | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...concept that one can build student support by first taking a building smacks of Debrayism since it seems to boil down to the rule that when confronted with an environment of latent hostility all you have to do is make you presence felt and that will automatically create letent, and even active tactics were suicidal...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: There's No Point Fighting to Lose | 4/23/1969 | See Source »

...powered by an external-combustion motor (which burns fuel outside the cylinders), uses yards of coiled tubing instead of an old-fashioned steam boiler and a special chemical preparation (to prevent freezing) instead of water. The fluid is sealed in, so it can't boil away. It is superheated to vapor by a burner that, according to Lear, "can burn anything from ground camel dung to high-grade gasoline"-although he recommends kerosene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: A Doctored Stanley, We Presume? | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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