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...space shuttle as its three main engines roar to life. He remembers well that when the eight steel bolts that attach the rocket boosters to the launching pad are blown away, there's no turning back. He has felt the crushing sensation as 6 million lbs. of thrust hurl him into orbit. And he knows how sublime and scary it is to float freely in space, tethered to the ship by only a slender lifeline. But none of Musgrave's four missions have fully prepared him for the challenge he faces next week, when he and six other astronauts...
...brewed beverage only to have their descendants pledge allegiance to another? If we are to save the Square--nay, the Nation--from the advancing tide of coffee snobbery, we have little choice. We must dress up as Brits, board the next steamer in from Zimbabwe or Colombia and hurl the sacks of the offending gourmet bean into the Boston Harbor...
Prosecutors thought they could prove intent simply by pointing to the ^ attackers' actions. "When you take a brick and hurl it at point-blank range as hard as you can into a helpless man's head, what other logical conclusion is there other than that you are trying to kill him or at least disfigure him?" asked Deputy District Attorney Lawrence Morrison. But the defense was able to convince jurors that the beatings arose from the wild circumstances of a riot and were not premeditated acts...
...Teachers hurl that charge right back at their critics. "My worst fear is that the religious right wants to have public schools present a certain way of thinking and living," says Tom Conry, president of the teacher's association in Vista, California. "They are not interested in students learning how to discuss, how to think or how to form their own opinions...
...place people outside the debate is to hurl epithets at them, taking away the credibility they need in order to participate. Woods cited "fascist" and "racist" as examples of terms used in "reckless name-calling" by liberals...