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...burn fuel at 6,000° C, hotter than the boiling point of most metals. The engines deliver a thrust of more than 1 million Ibs. (roughly the power output of 23 Hoover Dams). They pack three times more power for their weight than the J-2 engines that bore the Apollo astronauts aloft. Unlike the J-2s, they are not dropped away after takeoff but are designed to be reused for as many as 55 flights, and to be throttled up and down, producing more or less power as needed...
...microbus bore a smear of red paint, where it had apparently scraped against another vehicle. Peasants in the area reported seeing the microbus being towed by a red vehicle...
...point she tried a hand-on-hip flounce. As photographers lunged and snapped, she winked at the audience, grimaced wildly and, with eyes rolling toward the ceiling, indicated that she felt like a bit of an idiot. Awkward or not, she kept the onlookers on her side. She bore no resemblance to the young passionflower her merchandisers have hinted she is. But her giddy height and her astonishing face, with its hawk-wing eyebrows, deep blue eyes and full lips too fine for banalities or bubble gum, gave her what watchers have always known she had, a rare order...
Exhausted but triumphant, the three men were the first to deplane from one of the Air Algerie Boeing 727s that bore the hostages from Tehran to Algiers. There they were greeted with grateful bear hugs by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher and U.S. Ambassador to Algeria Ulric Haynes Jr., the Americans with whom they had worked so closely in the frantic last days of bargaining...
...Folkestone married Tyte in 1965, let him do the shopping and the housework and then threw him out for unspecified acts. He then enchanted two elderly sisters in Cheshire, moved in with them and stole their money. In London he seduced a shopgirl who, twelve years after she bore his daughter, still hopes he will marry...