Word: junkyards
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After it stood firm against my advances, I lost my cool and threatened to haul it to the junkyard. But it would not budge, so I had no choice. I asked the bureaucrat for help. There were only five minutes left, and when he said that he'd "be right over," I abandoned all hope. Still, I did everything I could to make the drawer open. I used reverse psychology, and I faked leaving the room so that it would let its guard down, then snuck up behind it and attempted to pry it open...
...aging. For any complex system--whether it's made of inorganic metal or protoplasmic goo--the mere act of doing the work it was designed to do carries a price. No sooner does the hardware begin operating than its parts begin wearing out and its journey to the junkyard begins. Cells are not spared this fate, and one of the functions that takes the most out of them is the job of processing food...
...hero lives in a trailer in a junkyard in Austin, Texas. He's involved in an "abbusive" relationship with his 62-year-old, wheelchair-using "granfather," who may be the meanest man in the world as well as being an extraterrestrial. Walter is charged with caring for the "gristtly old basterd." They share their encampment with 14 junkyard dogs, to which they feed only vegetables: "Granfather thinks it makes them lean & mean ... What it does do is make them skinny with patchy bald spots and crap a lot. Tomatos are a real problem...
...explain why the plane exploded in mid-air. The remains of the 350,000 ton aircraft are scattered over the ocean floor in heaps 10 to 12 feet high. Divers have described the hazards of exploring the wreckage in the dark as equivalent to diving into an underwater junkyard. TIME's Elaine Rivera reports from East Moriches: "Divers are having serious problems getting to parts of the plane. Every day that goes by brings us less and less information, and threatens to destroy evidence through prolonged exposure to seawater, but the investigators are holding on. They are still determined...
...bomb-squad cops had always said they were looking for a "junkyard bomber," because his inventions were patched together from lamp cords, bits of pipe, recycled screws and match heads. The first bomb went off at Northwestern University in 1978, bearing the name of a professor at the Technological Institute. A year later, a second bomb was left at the institute, injuring a graduate student who opened it. After that they came to an airline executive, the computer-science departments at Vanderbilt and Berkeley, a University of Michigan professor. He got better at it as he went along, a self...