Word: coronae
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They won't do your taxes, and you can't play bridge with them. Replaced by / personal computers, typewriters are going the way of vinyl records. In a move that signaled the end may be near for a dying industry, Smith Corona announced it would shut down its last U.S. factory, in Cortland, N.Y., costing 875 jobs. The factory's operations are moving to Mexico, where they still make Volkswagen Beetles...
Left in the sun's place was a black orb surrounded by a wide, shimmering halo -- the solar corona, visible only during an eclipse, when it is not obscured by the sun's bright glare. From the 12 o'clock position, an enormous red-orange flame flared beyond the halo; smaller "prominences" appeared at the 3 and 6 o'clock positions. Murmurs of wonder rose from the shivering crowd draped in the steel-gray light. "Mind blowing," said Edward Kuba, University of Hawaii regent. "Wonderful, wonderful," pronounced Sony chairman Akio Morita, one of several VIPs present, as he gazed through...
...should not be judging the American justice system." In the U.S., argues Ward Campbell, a California deputy attorney general, "we have a system for capital punishment that gives the defendant unparalleled procedural protection." In fact, California has not executed anyone for 24 years. Mass murderers Charles Manson and Juan Corona were sentenced to death, but their sentences were commuted to life in prison...
...dusk last Monday, Norma Corona Sapienz, 38, president of the State Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Culiacan, on Mexico's Pacific Coast, was driving home from work when three men in a pickup blocked her path. She tried to flee on foot. Suddenly gunfire rang out, and five bullets tore through the prominent attorney's back, killing her instantly...
...mourn the loss of a plaster saint. That saint, the venerated one with the windblown corona, was a dried husk. The man who had the great thoughts and spun the strange theories that inspired that veneration was young, full of vigor and turbulence and passion. He was hardly alone; all his organs worked as well as his brain. His household was squirming with babies when he began his greatest work, on general relativity. Einstein's physics flourished not in the absence of life but in its fullness. His scientific life blossomed at the same time as the rest...