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High intensity EMI can also cause sparks in thesame way metal leads to sparks in a microwave. Ifa spark is close to the fuel tank, as FAA reportsshow, the fuel tank can ignite...
...which, 76 ft. wide, hangs permanently over the atrium of the National Gallery--that would need a hurricane to budge them and are parodies of his original, lyrical insight. He was always best on the small-to-medium scale. And compared with his best mobiles, his "stabiles"--big-profile metal sculptures that didn't move and were a fixture of half the corporate plazas in America from the '60s until his death--are mostly boring; perhaps they were more interesting to make than to look...
...explains, "People have a lot of preconceived notions about what a Muslim is supposed to be like--especially a Muslim woman. They assume I'm going to be either quiet and subservient or violent and terrorist....In airports, they check my bags three times over. Even when the metal detector doesn't beep when I go through it, they scan...
...Cardinal Saldarini and a German textile conservation expert, it will be unspooled from around its wooden cylinder. After a top cloth has been pulled away--red taffeta, sewn by Princess Clotilde of Savoy in 1868--the fragile, scarred length of ancient linen will be smoothed into place in a metal-and-glass display case built precisely to its dimensions. The case's air will be drawn out and replaced with argon, an inert gas. Then the case will be hung horizontally at the intersection of the Turin Cathedral's nave and transept, near the center of the cathedral's built...
...Friday character on Dragnet who was interested in "just the facts, ma'am." His rambling sermon was so defensive that White House staff members started paging one another, asking, "Are you watching this?" A staff member said, "It was like Captain Queeg. All that was missing was the metal balls and the strawberries." He added, "Who would have thought at the end of this, Starr, not Clinton, would have been the one acting like Nixon...