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...most striking image clearly showed a segmented, tubelike object, with a width about a hundredth that of a human hair, and to the untrained eye clearly resembling a life-form. Apparently to some trained eyes also. "When I took it home and put it on the kitchen table," says Everett Gibson Jr., a geochemist at the Johnson Space Center, "my wife, who is a biologist, asked, 'What are these bacteria...
Somehow, through the accretion of such details, the arc of a relationship does begin dimly to emerge. A marriage that may not have been for love alone, nor for money, nor for political expediency grew to have a measure of each. "He did not object to marrying Jackie because it would put a crimp in his sex life," Klein writes,"...but he knew that marriage would bring certain wrenching changes. For one thing, he would have to trust Jackie with his deepest secrets." Both authors believe that ultimately he did so, and that the bond deepened as Kennedy realized...
...famous medieval crucifix. It has been in my carry-on luggage ever since. As long as carry-on luggage has been X-rayed, its discovery--or failure to find it--has been my private check on airport security. Abroad, at least 8 out of 10 screenings discover this object, and my hand luggage is searched; in Britain, 19 out of 20 screenings pick up my cross and result in inspections. In the many hundreds of times I have gone through the process in the U.S., having the cross has resulted in an alert and a search only twice...
...decade ago, he has immersed himself in the composer's life and music, tracking down every extant photograph of Mahler for a book and issuing a facsimile of Mahler's score of the Symphony No. 2, better known as the "Resurrection" Symphony--which just happens to be the object of Kaplan's special passion...
...roaches therefore spend their time making often incomprehensible wise-cracks from under any object in Joe's nightmarishly filthy apartment that could be animated: false teeth, toast, lampshades etc. Payson's philosophy seems to have been to keep things moving, literally, at any cost...