Word: mammothly
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...incapable of moving through is the quintessential Western nightmare: homebound on the range. Driving back from Bozeman that afternoon, I crunched some more discouraging numbers. I'd always heard that freedom had a price. And soon I'd determined what it was in my case, driving my mammoth, inefficient truck: 30¢ a mile. This meant that my high-speed gallop along the highway was costing me roughly a dollar every two minutes. I couldn't have been more flummoxed if I'd been told that I now had to pay a dime for every breath and a nickel for every...
...boosters are mostly traditional throwaways, and the best parts of the shuttle will be cannibalized to build them. A mammoth new heavy-lift cargo booster will be assembled out of two of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters and up to six of its liquid fuel main engines. This would be used to put an unmanned lunar lander and a small upper stage rocket into Earth orbit. A smaller booster, made of a single solid rocket and a single liquid-fueled engine, would then launch the four-person crew in the command module. The astronauts would dock with the lunar...
...together now? Microsoft and AOL fought bitterly during the browser wars of the '90s and vied for dial-up customers before broadband took off. Today they're losing billions in ad revenues to Google and Yahoo. By consolidating their websites into a mammoth network, they could sell ads across the board. Hooking up would be a defensive play too. Google raised $4.1 billion in a stock offering last week and has been encroaching on Microsoft's most precious turf, the computer desktop. Microsoft is worried about falling further behind Google in the Web-search races and would love...
...can duplicate the size and scope of historical film epics. They conjure the grandeur, the spectacle, the very movieness of movies. For the French director Abel Gance, one giant screen was not enough for the story of the little Corsican corporal. Gance used a three-screen process to create mammoth murals of battles, political rallies and snowball fights, as Napoleon (Albert Dieudonné) conquers Europe...
...ultimate battlefield in the culture wars. If Jesus is competing with 50 Cent for the soul of today's youth, megachurches like Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, are making sure the Lord is not outgunned. Their junior high worship area features a million-dollar sound system and mammoth movie screens that play to an audience of as many as 1,000 teenagers on Sundays. Prestonwood's executive pastor, Mike Buster, makes no apologies for the slick production values. It takes a good show to expose kids to the good word, he says, because there is so much competition from...