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...mirrors when one would do? Because it is far easier to cast, grind and mount several small mirrors than one huge one. At $8 million, MMT's cost was a fourth of a comparable conventional telescope's price...
...Giza, and the 1,500 guests dined simply on cold meats, lemonade and tea. The entertainment was something else. On the program was a blond singer, a comedian and Egypt's two leading belly dancers. For Sadat, it was a perfect way to unwind after the bumps and grind at Camp David...
Increasingly, however, the justification for plea bargaining as a necessary evil is being questioned. Most observers agree that certain overburdened urban jurisdictions would grind to a halt without it. But in two fair-sized cities, Portland, Ore., and New Orleans, district attorneys claim that they have been able to get stiffer sentences without backlogging the court docket by cutting down on plea bargaining. According to New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick, when he limited plea bargaining, the city's criminal court judges complained that "they would have to spend a lot of time on the bench trying cases...
...dogs digging bodies from sand piles; some were half-eaten, and the dogs had already picked clean one visible skull. Half the villages were deserted; some simply abandoned, others already looted. One saw, as one traveled, people chipping bark from trees, with knives, scythes and meat cleavers; you could grind bark and eat it. The trees would then die and be chopped down for firewood; perhaps all China had been deforested that...
...after hearing the stylus grind through the heart-beat strains of Street Hassle yet another time, it is clear that the future of rock is here. Lou Reed, Patti Smith, and even Willie Loco and Blondie have proven to be ear-catchers out of the stacks, the kind of stuff that turns your heart nicely the first time you hear it, so you stop and think about what you just heard and place the stylus back a bit so you can hear it again. Street Hassle is more than just a collection of songs. The first side is a fluent...