Word: bricked
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...under way even before the shuttle debris was cool. The most notorious piece of evidence was the bit of hardened foam that fell from the external fuel tank during lift-off, striking Columbia's left wing area. Applied like shaving cream, the foam dries to the hardness of a brick, which could conceivably damage the fragile external tiles that protect the shuttle during its fiery re-entry. When it was later disclosed that the spacecraft had spent 39 days idling on the pad before launch--enduring episodes of freezing rain that could have loosened the foam further--the case seemed...
Lately in Cambridge, when the temperature rises just enough for the snowy season to become the wet season, the red brick of the university appears stark and unflattering to its pretensions. In these times one has to squint hard to see Harvard in its own all-powerful image, the one after which we create ourselves...
...Driving up the highway Saturday afternoon (Iraq time), I saw clear signs of preparations in the scores of small mud-and-brick forts that line the strategically important road. Officials were not immediately available for comment, and there had been no announcement of any specific military build-up. But when I passed this way en route to Basra only three days ago, most of the forts were empty or thinly manned. Now they were abuzz with activity...
...much resistance can they offer? The forts are tiny, most of them no more than 50 feet square. Their mud walls are topped with rows of whitewashed bricks; in the four corners are small brick kiosks, some of which serve as machine-gun stations. Many of the forts also include small brick bunkers. Painted on the outer walls of each fort are exhortations of bravery and sacrifice by Saddam Hussein...
...shuttle is descending without power, which means astronauts at the controls can't compensate for a loss of attitude by using the engines, they can only do so using the flaps. And that's extremely hard. Astronauts describe piloting the shuttle on reentry as like trying to fly a brick with wings. It's very difficult to operate, and even more so to correct any problems...