Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours, next day, and I'd think he's forgotten, and he'd say, 'I heard all that.' That's an amazing trait." All that processing power left little air space for reflection or curiosity or wild-eyed reverie. He thrived in a place where big dreams tended to die in the details and grand vision was best left to the think tanks and the bully pulpiteers in the White House...
...images, which McKay acknowledges are the weakest and most controversial parts of the evidence, the panel of scientists at the press conference cited complex chemicals found close by or inside the carbonate globules. These included polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHS)--organic molecules that on Earth are formed when microorganisms die and decompose (but also when certain fossil fuels are burned)--and iron sulfides and magnetite, minerals that are often (but not necessarily) produced by living organisms...
...tall flower to reveal a six-wheeled rover. Powered by solar cells and D-cell batteries, the 2-ft.-long robot vehicle is supposed to hum away from the landing pod, crawling at 2 ft. a minute, and sample the soil for several weeks--or until its batteries die...
...observes. "I took a long look at my two sons. If my oldest is that radical now, he and his brother might be Order members some day. They'll murder people because of their skin color, religion or sexual preference. They'll go to jail, maybe die. My kids will be sacrificed. The idea hurt." Last fall he left Nicole, with whom he is now engaged in a bitter custody battle, and returned to California to live with his mother. It took some time, but with Sharon Leyden's encouragement he found the courage to contact the people...
...know about this one. I may not be able to prevent when I die, but I think I can prevent how I die. Maybe it's the fact that my grandmother--who smoked about a pack a day--withered away and died of cancer that is spooking me. Or maybe it was those lectures last spring in my Core course on human physiology when Dr. Brain passed around lungs destroyed by cancer for everyone in the class to hold and touch...