Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stopped, realizing that I had fallen into ghost's trap. Did I want that? There is safety in repetition, but shouldn't all things change--even the Harvard men's basketball team...
...approve of a TWA pilot's newest safety technique, but it's hard to quarrel with success. Late Tuesday, when Flight 199 was 15 miles southwest of the San Antonio International Airport, a cockpit light indicated that the tail stairwell door of the Boeing 727 had fallen open about two feet. (The 70 or so passengers would have noticed even faster but for a bulkhead between the gaping hole and their compartment.) Incredibly, the crew wasted no time in selecting one of its number to fix the problem. "They did use a rope and tied it around this individual," said...
THIS IS THE AGE OF PRIVATIZATION. All across America, communities are hiring for-profit firms to perform the tasks that have traditionally fallen to government--educating children, running prisons, even building and maintaining highways. There is one job, though, that seems to be an unlikely candidate for outsourcing: executing the foreign policy of the U.S. If that is not the business of the Federal Government, what is? In Bosnia, however, the U.S. has a problem: there is one particular aspect of its mission that is crucial but that it is loath to carry out. So the very 1990s solution...
Egan does make a few missteps. In Why China? and the title story, she dabbles in a world of fallen bond traders, photographers and fashion models with names like Vesuvi and Anouschka. Their problems, at least as detailed here, cannot be taken seriously. Egan needs to leave these folks to Darren Star--she's too talented a writer to go slumming on Central Park West...
Well, several hundred feet of snow have fallen, several hundred more are on their way, and the daily walk to the yard has become the daily trudge. Now, it's not that slogging through inches of slush while dodging falling icicles isn't my idea of fun. It is. In fact, it's right up there with Tibetan yak racing and funnelling Ole Grand-Dad brand 140 proof whiskey. However, the number of miserable-looking people I've seen slipping and sliding on their way along the streets leads me to ask that question which I'm sure...