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...unless a ship has navy support lurking just beyond the horizon, a traditional swashbuckling firefight is a bad idea. "Today I wouldn't dare recommend to anyone to arm themselves to fight pirates," said Edwin Mast, a former captain and current nautical technical consultant. "In the old days when they had knives and sticks, yes. But today they have machine guns...
...accidentally go to Tampa [the Yankees spring training home] the first day of spring training? -Edwin Henriquez, New York City[Laughs] I had a ball this year. You go out and find your restaurants. It was a whole new plan for me in Vero Beach (the Dodgers spring base), even though we were there for an abbreviated period of time. I want to tell you, I went back in the Dodger archives to find restaurants. I asked Sandy Koufax and Koufax was my restaurant guide. So he found different restaurants, and as of now he hasn't picked...
...covertly, slowing the process. A country with civilian nuclear plants could choose to reprocess spent atomic fuel into plutonium, which can also be used for bombmaking. That would require the construction of a separate reprocessing facility. You need to be smart enough to actually design a weapon, but as Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists points out, "If you can make fissile material, you can make a warhead...
...this respect, Wong's poetry differs from that of older Singaporean poets such as Edwin Thumboo and Lee Tzu Pheng, who typically concerned themselves with questions of national and cultural identity (indeed, Thumboo has spoken of Wong's "remarkable inwardness"). Wong worries less about his cultural provenance and more about his own isolation amid the boom and bustle of the cityscape. In one poem, he bemoans his distance from his mother: she "sits in front/ of the television every day,/ afloat in a dress too large/ for her body, fanning herself/ with a magazine, feigning contentment." He compares his father...
...much else.) I'd love to direct you to the DVD or VHS of The Adams Chronicles, but that doesn't exist. Nor were his performances in all those Albee productions, or his 1963 Hamlet for Tyrone Guthrie, recorded for posterity. As the 19th-century tragedian Edwin Booth said, stage acting was "sculpting in snow." The imposing snowmen George built may be found only in the memories of those lucky enough to have seen them...