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...work together in these difficult times," says Sister María, a nun visiting Granada from her home near Madrid. But her more cloistered sisters in the adjacent Convento de las Tomasas don't seem to be on the same wavelength. Ruiz points out that they have raised the height of the wall that divides the convent from the mosque and topped it in part with a metal grill. "We shall ignore it," says Ruiz, who sees the new mosque and its associated Islamic cultural center as a place where understanding between the two religions can be improved. There...
...second, compressing the spine so much that a person sometimes comes out a half-inch shorter. Better to be 6-foot-1 1/2 than dead, I reasoned. The seat also packs a parachute, set to open below 14,000 feet. Noting that Pike's Peak is approximately that height, I asked what would happen if I ejected there. "They'd be cleaning you up with a spoon," I was told. Hence, I was nervous. My prospective crewmates, however, were reassuring. Said one: "At least you won't be flying at night. In bad weather. With people trying to kill...
...dashboard. Blood hit the throttles and we whizzed down the runway. To make the BONE more aerodynamic and thus faster, Blood reached to his right and pulled back on a lever which retracted the wings to a desired angle. It reminded me of the way I set the height of the blades on my lawnmower. We accelerated to roughly 500 m.p.h. at an altitude of 10,000 ft. and moments later we were over Powder River. That's when he took his hand off the controls and announced, "Ok, it's your airplane...
...Escape Is Not Over (1989) By: Choi Un Hee and Shin Sang Ok, a South Korean actress and director, respectively, kidnapped by Kim in 1978 Dirt: The height-challenged leader refers to himself as "small as a midget's turd...
...ever-globalizing marketplace, companies must keep growing, he says, with many aspiring to become the leaders in their industry. That leaves them no choice but to buy up rivals. "You are forced to participate," he says. The latest mergers are following a different pattern from ones at the height of the boom. In the heady late 1990s, M and A deals in telecommunications, technology and the media were based on guesses about consumer demand for new services. By contrast, many of the big deals at the moment involve old-school companies in cyclical industries such as oil or steel...