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...last year, it now boasts eight seniors in the starting lineup. Moreover, the Crimson has changed its scheme to have the defensive linemen stay with the offensive line a little longer to free up room for the linbackers to plug any holes. The Lions' runners should have difficulty finding daylight...
Designer Paco Rabanne had predicted that the Russian Mir station would fall on France during the eclipse. Revelers held a "survivor's party" outside his headquarters. French ornithologists reported panic-stricken reactions of birds, particularly sea gulls, who clamorously flew out to sea, returning once daylight resumed...
...trepidation: "The bad thing about it is the fact that I live in a heavily wooded area, with a cemetery dating back to the 1750s half a block away, it's really late, and my three dogs need to go for a walk. I think they can wait 'til daylight...
...trickier one follows the line of Long Island, then sails out over water, passing only the relative lily pad of Block Island before reaching Martha's Vineyard. Kennedy chose the water route, and that may have been his undoing. "Fifteen or 20 miles over water is daunting in daylight," says Joe Orlando, an Essex pilot who met Kennedy on the flight strip a few months ago. "At night it's terrifying." Making things worse, much of the East Coast was under a heat-wave haze, reducing visibility even further...
There are plenty of such painful and embarrassing passages to be found here, along with some scattered bursts of the magic that Hemingway could consistently command earlier in his career: "White flowers had blossomed in the night so that with the first daylight before the sun had risen all the meadows looked as though a full moon was shining on new snow through a mist...