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...pushes the album into the numinous region of The Joshua Tree. Bono still hasn't found what he's looking for, but the search continues to redefine the boundaries of modern rock. Like a memoir written while the applause is still thundering, Zooropa is a plugged-in, spaced-out dispatch from the blinking LED eye of the multimedia storm...
...friends, don't get lost in the study of turtles. Endless, vertiginous self-examination leads not only to a sterile moral life, but also to a stilted intellectual life. Yes, examine. But do it with dispatch and modesty and then get on with it: Act and go and seek...
...comparatively easy. Only freshman Tod Meringoff, playing in the fourth position, took three sets to dispatch his Penn opponent...
...dispatch the calls. I don't want to get dirty and deal with the grease and the grime," Picard said. "You'd be surprised how many just don't get it, and get towed again and again...
Proceedings at the interception workshop were tumultuous. But there was general agreement about the basic strategy: detect the threatening object and dispatch a warhead-tipped rocket to intercept it and explode, nudging it into a new orbit that would carry it safely past Earth. For a small asteroid detected years and many orbits before its destined collision, the solution would be straightforward. "You apply some modest impulse to it at its perihelion, or closest point to the sun, using conventional explosives," explains Gregory Canavan, a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. "The slight deflection that results will amplify during...