Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though Sojourner won't get anywhere fast, where it does go should hold a lot of secrets. Ares Vallis was chosen as the landing site in the first place because the now dusty basin was once the largest known floodplain in the solar system. Water rushed into the valley at up to 170 m.p.h., carrying a giant spelunker's bag of rocks with it. Without venturing very far from where the lander set down, the rover could thus use its cameras and X-ray spectrometer to sample geology from all over the planet. Sojourner is scheduled to conduct these studies...
...finds the 67-year-old wanderer sitting on the veranda in the last indigo hour of the day, "watching the hills die" and imagining a world where he will exist no more. All the master's gifts are prodigally displayed here: an ear that finds liquid music in "fast water quarrelling over clear stones," a wit that sees death--the state of wordlessness--as "beyond declension," and an attentiveness that not only observes squirrels "spring up like questions" but also, 20 pages later, amplifies and complicates the image as "squirrels abound and repeat themselves like questions...
...requested a conference to set a trial date. "There's no dragging this out," says Bennett, bouncing in his office chair, his suspenders not up to the task of containing his shirt. "I'm doing everything I can to speed it up. We want discovery. We want a fast resolution...
...colon-cancer victim, is heavy with talk of illness and grandchildren. But as a grandfather of 10 gets up to testify, an unexpectedly joyful noise seeps through the floorboards--the sounds of salsa-inflected guitars and tambourines. The musicians, practicing in a basement fellowship room, belong to a fast-growing young Latino Baptist congregation that has shared Kingshighway's building for the past two years. After the old white folks leave, the Peruvian-born Rev. Amadeo Torres and his Spanish-speaking congregation go upstairs. The pews fill with worshippers from eight countries, including an abundance of fidgety children, and frayed...
Communities are recognizing the importance of revitalizing their Main Streets, once decimated by the rise of megamalls and fast-food outlets. Whether they're restoring a downtown or starting a day-care center, people are less likely to plot ways to get federal grants or insist that the government come fix the problem...