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...tried eating the things, really I did. I chipped away at a drumstick, pried off a morsel, chewed, and chewed some more. When it got lodged in my throat, I drank some soda to get it down. Big mistake. I expect it will float around in my gastrointestinal tract, chewing gum style, for the next seven years...
Designing the new parachute was Popov's greatest challenge. Hang gliders weigh only 500 lbs., even if you include the pilot. A small Cessna, on the other hand, weighs more than 1,700 lbs., and a standard parachute big enough to float such a craft safely to the ground would fill up a 50-gal. drum. Not very practical. Undaunted, the BRS engineers figured out how to pack the parachute under pressure in such a way that it takes up no more space than a large briefcase and is mounted over the center of the wings. If the craft...
...CALLS HIS RANCH NEVERLAND. HE surrounds himself with young boys. He speaks in a child's whisper. He seems to float onstage. And he doesn't want to grow up. Michael Jackson has identified so closely with Peter Pan that for years he hoped to star in a Steven Spielberg film version of the James M. Barrie play. It might have been the first extraterrestrial autobiography...
Some of the background scenery is suspended from black lines, making the green geometric shapes above the players' heads float with an eerie nature similar to that of the play itself. Beyond being bold, the greenery in the flyspace lends itself well to being trees in the park...
...Mississippi basin that it came in July, giving farmers less time to recover than previous inundations, which almost always came in late winter or early spring. Summers in the area are usually noted for searing heat and Saharan drought rather than for rains on which Noah's ark might float...