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...speed, and the star had become a shining yellow sphere, its intense light illuminating the planets circling it. Basking in the rays of the star, the approaching comet warmed, giving off vapors that formed a growing cloud around it. And in the brightening light, the cloud began to glow...
Business, while booming, is erratic. Many customers come in just to browse the collection of masks, from glow-in-the-dark skeletons to celebrity wrestlers to Richard Nixon. "You wouldn't believe how many people come in here, try on 97 different masks, and buy one $1.79 set of vampire teeth," Freed said...
...tactic that is seen more and more frequently by authorities, the new parasmugglers fly over a drop zone marked by infrared beacons visible only to the pilot. They dump drugs in containers equipped with infrared glow lights and radio transponders. The plane flies on with doors and windows open so any remaining specks of cocaine are blown away, allowing the smugglers to pass Customs...
...pall of smoke emanating from quake-caused fires first darkened the morning sky, then dissipated. By early afternoon an eerie silence, broken only by the wailing sirens of emergency vehicles, had settled over the normally boisterous city. The sun again broke through, casting a pink glow on crumbled buildings, piles of debris, windowless facades. Outside the remaining half of an apartment building on Calle Atenas, a man in a beige suit sat motionless, as though any shift of his body might dislodge more of the structure. "Please get my daughter, please get la chiquita," he whispered to the rescuers...
...marble for the floors is from the same French quarry used by the station's builders. Indeed, to the modern eye, accustomed to cleaner colors and lines, the period hues and ornamental density of this main interior space may seem too authentic: the muddy green and stained-glass glow and riot of gold are, all together, extremely rich. The room's Gilded Age swank is gorgeous, not inspiring...