Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still be some big news from space. In July, for example, NASA will use a Delta rocket to launch the Cosmic Background Explorer, a satellite that will study the background microwave radiation that emanates from every part of the cosmos. These microwaves are thought by astrophysicists to be the faint afterglow of the Big Bang explosion, which started the universe, and they pose a riddle. The glow is uniform in all directions to within 1 part in 10,000, implying that the Big Bang was a perfectly uniform explosion. But the modern universe is filled with clusters of matter called...
...that moment, I knew I was alone in a wilderness of nutritional disasters. The memories of three years of Harvard University Dining Service (HUDS) meals came flooding into my mind. I became faint. Images of my mother's home-cooked lasagna danced before my eyes, taunting me with visions of real food...
...which includes the Bell JetRanger III helicopter. For a mere $1,380, the copter will take four people on a tour, complete with a champagne picnic on windswept Lauhala Point and a view right into the maw of the active volcano Kilauea. This jaunt is not for the faint of heart or weak of knee. When the tree line below suddenly drops away, leaving the swaying copter to swoop deep into an amphitheater of waterfalls, even the rush of peaceable New Age music injected through the passenger headphones may fail to tranquilize a white-knuckle flyer...
...breasts--they are all over, on her hips, her bottom, her stomach. The ones on her chest are reputed to be the largest over in the Pudding's history, and they often seem to move all on their own. Her performance is all in her appearance--with her faint moustache, one long eyebrow, and house-sized black lace dress--but even better is her body language. Shaking her groove thing, or two, comes natural to Mama, as she forcefully swats a bat and lurches her hips in the "Mobster Mash" number...
Investigators assumed that some clues to the fate of Flight 103 would be contained within the plane's two flight recorders, both of which were recovered from the wreckage. But on Friday they could find nothing abnormal on the voice tape save for a "faint unquantified noise" an instant before Flight 103 lost contact. They were hoping, however, that within a few days they would have further clues as to whether the Christmas tragedy at Lockerbie carried with it a murderous message of political symbolism...