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NASA may have the "vomit comet" to brace astronauts for space flight. But if you're looking for a real stomach-turning ride, try Wall Street. In a seven-week trip, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged nearly 700 points from mid-March to mid-April, only to suddenly turn full-throttle upward. In one of the dizziest weeks of the year, the Dow closed up 332.22 points to a near record...
Leaning on my right leg to brace against the 40 mile-per-hour winds, I watched as the crew on the deck connected the F-14 "Tomcat" to the catapult. The blast shield behind the plane's twin engines rose and so did the noise...
...spirituality or a higher form of awareness. Does this mean that Christianity, among other religions, is remiss in providing for the spiritual needs of us mortals? The proliferation of alternative religions seems to indicate so. What will be the next group to leave us on this quest? We should brace ourselves for more surprises and hope that our capacity to be shocked, as well as our ability to recover from the shock, will remain intact. VICTOR SOLLORANO Geneva...
Imagine my shock, then, when he called me up two weeks ago in a complete panic and told me to brace myself for extraordinary news: Sir Alec Guinness, the distinguished British actor who played Obi-Wan Kenobi, was not dead. Very maturely, I replied, "You wanna bet?" But he was convinced and began to recite the evidence. He had just come home from a family vacation and had seen a copy of a book written by Guinness in 1996. What's more, he read an article in Time magazine which seemed to make it very clear that...
...they're smiling through their tears. They kept busy to avoid being alone. Now they struggle with the knowledge that graduation will be their last communal stroll through the Yard. They realize they may never see each other again. And they brace for the upcoming transition from collegiate superstardom to corporate-world anonymity...