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Whatever the faults of the synfuels program, advocates argue that its purpose is still valid. Because world energy supplies are so volatile, they say, the price of oil could surge once again in the future. Says Thomas Haan, a Great Plains spokesman: "Just because it quit raining doesn't mean you stop fixing the roof. Just because energy is cheap right now doesn't mean we should stop trying to develop synthetic fuel...
Unfortunately, the Mets called a press conference a week later to announce that Finch intended to quit baseball for good and concentrate on the French horn. In addition, the control on his fastball had vanished, leaving his out-pitch “an instrument of Chaos and Cruelty,” Finch said...
...success is if a bomb tests satisfactorily in Nevada and then goes into stockpile. In that case Wood works with the engineer on the final design of the weapon--"weaponize is the term." A bomb must be "buildable, reliable and robust. If one little thing jiggles, it can't quit working." Design is as far as she goes. "You design it, you field it, you sit there with sweaty palms and wait for the ground to shake...
Lawrence's amazing ability has been nurtured by her father Harry and her mother Sylvia. A onetime computer consultant, Harry quit work in 1977 to concentrate on making prodigies of the girl and her younger sister Rebecca. Neither child has ever been to school. All their primary and secondary learning has come from Harry and Sylvia, at desks set up in the family kitchen in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Partly as a result of this cozy tutorial, Ruth passed her high school-level exams at nine. Two years later, she won a scholarship at St. Hugh's College, scoring first...
...Martin flies off for no apparent reason to stay at the motel on Florida's Gulf Coast managed by his sister-in-law Dominica. Before long, the two of them are in bed together, with the TV again bearing witness: "About nine we started to make love but then quit in the middle of things and went for a walk. We got hamburgers at a beach dive called the Rubber Shack that specialized in scuba gear, then went back to the motel. She fell asleep ten minutes into David Letterman...