Word: desertion
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...miles or more. But it had never before been tested in free flight. Last week's test had been postponed six times because of bad weather and failures in the X-15's telemetry and electrical systems. Even as the mother plane carried it above the Mojave Desert, groundlings were quoting odds that the X-15, with wings little bigger than a Cadillac tail fin, would "drop like a rock" when released...
...reply: "I'm ready when you are, buddy." Bock went through a five-second countdown, then punched a red button on his control panel. With a metallic click a locking device opened, and the X-15 dropped silently on a long, fast, powerless glide toward the desert floor...
...whom are overseas residents?head straight for the spa, where treatments range from the one-hour Walu BalBal facial, which uses wattle seeds and lillypilly berries, to the resort's signature indulgence, the decadent two-hour Walbul-Walbul, or Butterfly, treatment, which involves a full-body exfoliation with desert salts and plenty of warm...
...more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States. All of the money we’ve spent trying to “secure the borders” has not kept immigrants out, though it has caused a shocking number of them to die in the desert. American workers need help, but cracking down on immigrants won’t do this. Employers want immigrants because they are vulnerable. But the solution is not to get rid of immigrants; it is to get rid of their vulnerability. Illegal immigrants must be legalized because only then will they have...
...child is inducted into the adult realm through a transformative experience, whether it's becoming more steeped in religion or killing a deer or having a vision. It's true that I would be happy to send any of the children of My Super Sweet 16 into the desert by themselves for a while. Their blingy flings are not celebrations of accomplishment; they're celebrations of self. What used to mark the end of childhood now seems only an excuse to prolong the whiny, self-centered greediness that gives infantile a bad name. Far from joining polite society like...