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...gown, feeling mortal, the way you do if you're 57 and scantily clad, sitting in bright light. I could imagine that a pea-size tumor in my innards had sprouted and sent evil tendrils shooting through the lymph nodes, and now dense jungle growths had a grip on my vitals and in a few months people would sit in an Episcopal church and softly weep for me and then have a nice lunch. I was almost to the scattering of the ashes when the doctor walked in. He asked me how I was and I said fine...
...walking indictment of the U.S.'s loose grip not only on its nuclear secrets but on its enforcement procedures, will go from shackles and solitary confinement at a county jail in Santa Fe to his own home in White Rock, near his old workplace. The conditions of that stay have yet to be set, but some things seem certain: one phone line, no computers...
...Lower tire inflation gives a better grip on the road, a softer ride and, yes, a touch more stability, but it's also hell on tires. It's unclear whether that contributed to the blowouts responsible for 62 deaths, although at least one lawsuit now says it did. (Ford was also putting Goodyear tires on its Explorers then, and they apparently have fared fine.) Adding to the problems: It stands to reason that a more stable SUV would have handled those blowouts better, and saved some lives in the process...
...Karenna repeatedly skied after hitting the water so hard that she broke her ribs. And during one dry summer, when rattlesnakes began coming into the lake and the male skiers began to scream and scatter, Karenna grabbed a snake and held it aloft, its venomous mouth clamped in her grip...
Imagine random bombs going off in your city from time to time, and you can get a sense of the pressure and fear that have tightened their grip on Moscow. The city is still traumatized by the apartment-house bombings that killed 226 last September and a pair of bombings in other cities that killed 81. At the time, Russian officials pinned those attacks on Chechen separatists--and used the explosions as justification for a bloody war that is still under way. But no one responsible for the Moscow bombings was ever caught. The latest attack may also go unsolved...