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...procedures for piloting Columbia that will be on board during the flight. The manual is changed constantly; in the office shared by Young and Crippen is a stack of mimeographed revisions 2½ ft. high. The two men have also spent more than 1,200 hours working in elaborate mock-ups of the Columbia's flight decks, familiarizing themselves with the maze of switches and the five computers that run the ship...
...Christmas trees show the militarists that there is something better than violence, that we don't want registration," Heidi Davis, one of the demonstrators, said after leading a mock nuclear annihilation scene, in which protesters dropped to the ground and screamed...
...opinion is heavily rooted in the false mythology of the "Peasant Revolutions." While many governments throughout Latin America have, at the least, allowed repressive political and economic structures to exploit the farmers and workers of these countries, to suggest that most of the revolutionaries are indeed peasants is to mock the history of such revolutions, and to further suggest that any movement heavily supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union will improve the life of the peasants--one would merely have to ask the proletariat in, say, Afghanistan and Ethiopia if their conditions have improved since their Cuban- and Soviet...
...Gushed the critic of Reagan's play-by-play: "His crisp account of the muddy struggle sounded like a carefully written story of the gridiron goings-on, and his quick tongue seemed to be as fast as the plays." As usual, Reagan had prepared thoroughly by practicing mock commentary at Dixon High scrimmages...
Kundera's people face a shared dilemma. Should they try to remember, when the memories of happier times only mock the bleak, estranged present? Would it not be more sensible to shrug off the past, to laugh it away? No simple answers emerge...