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...surface, it looks like we're in deep trouble here. Over the past week alone, our government has said that our banks, apartment buildings and New York City landmarks could soon be terror targets. Further terror strikes are "inevitable," warns Vice President Dick Cheney. Americans should brace themselves for suicide bombings of the kind that have become commonplace in Israeli cities, warns FBI director Robert Mueller. And it's inevitable that, sooner or later, the terrorists will get access to weapons of mass destruction, according to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...Brace yourself. A nonprofit group loosely affiliated with Netscape is about to release a new browser called Mozilla. It's fast, it's flexible, and it has the backing of AOL (which owns Netscape, not to mention TIME) and its 35 million users. Life is about to get complicated...
Then there is the case of miracles, in which I have an advantage over some, having actually seen a few myself. When I was young, my family attended religious services run by a woman named Grace, a brassy Italian-American lady whose ministry was based around her ability to (brace yourselves, my science-concentrating friends) heal people of various illnesses, ranging from chronic arthritis to cancer. She would pluck sufferers from the crowd, name their ailments, touch them—and they would fall over and lie twitching on the carpeted floor of whatever Connecticut high school auditorium her constantly...
...happy to be once again onboard Ark Royal. You see, I launched her and her predecessor [in 1950]. So it's wonderful to feel that now she's going to be at sea and guarding our shores just as in the days of yore ... Captain, splice the main brace" ? a reference to the old naval custom of an extra tot of rum, a round for a job well done. On the day before Easter, her job well done, the Queen Mother died peacefully in her sleep at Royal Lodge, her residence at Windsor, with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth...
Things only got worse for Valdesolo when, trailing 4-2 in the second game, he reinjured his right ankle, rolling it in spite of the brace he sported. Valdesolo did manage to win the next point, but Bullock then ran the table, capturing the final 14 points of the match as Valdesolo misfired on several shots and, as he grew more desperate and searched in vain for an advantage, became more aggressive in his shot-taking, leading to even more errors...