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...spirit, Tyson is an imposing villain, for he seems beyond evil or humanity -- soul- free. Look for the black heart beneath the black stare, and find the creepiest thing: nothing. Punishment without guilt. After a 1986 TKO of Jesse Ferguson, Tyson said matter-of-factly, "I tried to punch him and drive the bone of his nose back into his brain." Nice analysis, Professor Death...
...caused by cracks that allowed the craft's skin to peel away. The theoretical answer: use materials that prevent cracks from forming, and the plane's structural , integrity will be maintained to allow for a safe landing. The B-52 bombings will help determine how much force will punch a hole in an airliner's skin...
Each ScanFone unit, which can also function as a regular telephone, features a magnetic-stripe credit card reader and a light pen to scan bar codes. After selecting groceries, customers punch in a delivery time, run a credit card through the magnetic reader and await delivery. On the retailer's end, a computer registers the order and professional shoppers hit the aisles, instructed to select the best cuts of meat and the freshest vegetables and fruits for ScanFoners. If successful, the system is expected to serve 16 cities by June...
...19th century American art -- Audubon through Homer and Eakins to the Ashcan School -- actually counted against him. What the postwar art world liked was "spirituality" and "sublimity," the tincture of melancholy elevation. But Davis had always liked the American vernacular, the look of the street, the jostle and visual punch of signs, life imagined in jazz tempo, hard-edged, Cubist-based and infused with optimism. So that left him on the margin...
There is something magical about watching people learn how to box. From the punching, the fancy footwork, the exercises and the rope-jumping, I learned discipline, intensity and grace. From watching other boxers, men and women, punch, do fancy footwork, exercise and jump rope better than I can, I learned humility. From watching the accomplished boxers don headgears, put on jock straps over their shorts and spar, I set goals. And from seeing Tommy do crazy exercises (he can rock back and forth on his stomach! His stomach!) and watching him run all over the MAC for three hours screaming...