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...also of the spirit of an age when all are heedlessly charging into action, swords slicing the air, instead of more sensibly retreating to their studies to think things over when danger threatens. Jack is an anachronism, engaging in a lot of desperate improvisations to keep his skin intact...
...NASA knows it may never be able to completely keep every inch of the shuttle fuel tank's polyurethene foam intact during takeoffs. In this flight, the foam cracked and dislodged before liftoff, all after NASA decided to eliminate 37 pounds of it in a new tank coverage design before Discovery was rolled out to the launchpad. It was a move Hale called the "largest aerodynamic change that we have made to the space shuttle since it first flew...
...said. Brainard said that the total value of the 13 stolen maps was about $500,000, but she added that it was difficult to put a price on the maps, given their rarity. She also said a rare book that has all of its pieces intact has one value, but once someone—as Smiley did—slices pages out of the book, it loses some of its value. And then there’s the loss to scholarship that results when a book is stolen and is therefore inaccessible to scholars—that cost, Brainard said...
...pride in being "an architect of context." Its northern face, shielded from the road along the Seine by an immense transparent glass screen, exactly echoes the river's bend; on the west, it seamlessly abuts five late 19th century Hausmannian apartment buildings with a grace that leaves their courtyards intact. And along the southern exposure, where the public will begin entering the complex this week, Nouvel has given the museum just the right height and density to make accomplices rather than minions of the apartment buildings across the narrow Rue de l'Université. But however sensitively it segues into...
...still shake my head in wonder at Farrell's brilliance, and Maleska's myopia.) Sixteen years later, Farrell revived and revised the idea. Though Shortz typically revises about half of the clues in an average puzzle, and did tweak the surrounding clues, he left the central section gloriously intact...