Word: crashing
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When the courtiers came calling on Prince George down in Austin this winter, the Texas Governor liked to talk about how much he needed to learn to become a strong candidate for the White House. Bush would tell visitors about his crash course in foreign policy with the Republican Party's best and brightest. And he would cite the Balkans as an example: "For instance," he'd say, "a year ago, I didn't know where Kosovo was. But I bet you didn't either...
...line throw from the outfield brought Quakers catcher Jeff Gregorio up the third-base side of the plate, and Bridich, who arrived just before the ball, bumped Gregorio's glove on the way in, fouling up the tag at the plate to crash in with the tying...
...Kenya in 1995, after which he suffered public humiliation, including being beaten with leather whips. But Richard has proved astonishingly resilient. Even after a life-saving kidney transplant in 1979 (a gift from his estranged brother Philip) and the partial loss of both legs in a 1993 plane crash, he continues to exude confidence...
...with a "live" but crippled virus, and he concocted his competing vaccine accordingly. Salk, from his flu-fighting days, knew the immune system could be triggered without infection, using deactivated, or "killed," viruses. And, as it turned out, his quick-and-dirty killed viruses were better suited to a crash program than Sabin's carefully attenuated live ones. By 1954, Salk and Francis were ready to launch the largest medical experiment yet carried out in the U.S., vaccinating more than 1 million kids ages six to nine, some with the vaccine, some with a placebo. The children weren't told...
Ballard was the first SF writer to realize that there was something basically lunatic about space travel. Ballard never predicted events or devices; instead, he described future sensibilities--how it might feel, what it might mean. A bizarre contemporary event like the paparazzi car-crash death of Princess Diana is perfectly Ballardian. No flow chart, no equation, no profit projection could ever have predicted that, but if you've read Ballard, you swiftly recognize the smell of it. I daresay that's the best the SF genre will ever do--and no more should ever be asked...