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...would have chamber concerts with her musician friends, in the living room, while in another room my father would be conferring with nine or ten other men in the business about how to build a computerized mousetrap. These opposite life-styles would give me circuit overload. My tweeters would burn out and my only insulation would be my bedroom door, which remained closed for most of my life. I had to put towels under the jamb so I couldn't hear the classical music and the computer logic. My bedroom was like all the rooms of all the kids...
...ordered tighter security procedures in all Navy units. Among other things, he reminded commanders to heed a requirement long on the books but often ignored: two persons must participate in the destruction of classified material. John Walker's son Michael is accused of filching classified documents out of a burn bag while serving as a seaman on the aircraft carrier Nimitz...
...Melaleuca sucks up three times as much water as other swamp trees, thus drying out the land, and its leaves are filled with eucalyptol, an oily flammable substance that turns Melaleuca into an explosive torch when fires roar through the marshlands in dry seasons. Smoke and sparks from burning melaleucas caused numerous accidents on U.S. Highway 27 north of Miami during last month's fires. However, fire does not kill this pest tree; the insulating bark protects it even as the leaves burn. And like the Casuarina and Schinus, the Melaleuca is quick to invade areas scorched clear of native...
...also released a letter written before the siege by Move Member Ramona Africa, the sole known adult survivor of the bombing and fire that later engulfed the Move building, killing seven adults and four children and destroying or seriously damaging 60 surrounding houses. The letter warned that Move would "burn this . . . house down and burn you up with us" if the police attacked. Critics armed with hindsight said the note should have tipped city officials that a bomb could spark an inferno...
...sweep of the art of the past!" Fat chance. Such manifestos had already been part of the rubric of modernism -- or of a certain kind of modernism -- for the best part of half a century, since the Futurist Filippo Marinetti and the Dadaist Hugo Ball exhorted the young to burn their museums for the sake of the new age to come. And they led, on iron rails, to the museum itself...