Word: descent
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...convention. We decide when our day begins--half a solar period past the sun's zenith (not counting daylight savings time). And we decide when our year begins. It's our excitement at our own conventions that annually brings half a million of us to worship drunkenly the descent of a shining ball in Times Square...
...Galileo goes into orbit, a probe that it will have released 147 days earlier will plunge into the upper Jovian atmosphere at 106,000 m.p.h., its heat shield glowing. Two minutes later, after friction has slowed its descent, the probe will deploy a parachute at around 400 m.p.h. and drift downward, sniffing at gases, measuring temperatures and pressures, observing cloud structures and lightning and transmitting data back to its mother ship. Finally, about an hour into its descent, the probe will be vaporized by the steadily increasing temperatures it encounters below the dense clouds. Its fate, says a NASA official...
...military officers fear that when the reservists called up for the elections go home and the noisy celebrations are over, Algeria will begin burning once again. Until now, those who hold power have refused to share responsibility for the country's descent into chaos, or to acknowledge the deep roots of Islamic fundamentalism in Algerian society. And if there is to be peace in Algeria, secularists and Islamists will have to bridge the chasm that lies between them. The election seems unlikely to provide such a solution and, tragically, may prove little more than a momentary pause in a long...
Stephanopoulos' speech last night followed an address to Harvard undergraduates and graduates of Greek descent yesterday afternoon, where he was presented with a plaque from the Hellenic Students Society by its president, loannis Dossios...
...look at how the MAC affects each one of our five precious senses, beginning with our ability to see. What is it we see exactly when we step into this center for physical improvement? Upon my arrival and my descent into the rooms of hell, I usually spot an arrangement of used paper towels lying all over the floors...