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...computer code name that activated it. Guessing, he ran a program mysteriously titled AB; when nothing seemed to happen, he ran it again. Jackson was then horrified to see his entire report reorganized into an alphabetical list of single words, from Akhromeyev to Zelenogorsk. It took three hours to reconstruct the story, after which Jackson vengefully purged the AB program...
...simplest and most obvious reason: the world is a pretty miserable place for many people. If we can reconstruct the history of life as somehow inherently directed toward us, it is a very comforting thought. It is an old one too. It is embodied right in Genesis 1. We are not willing to give it up easily...
There are two plywood circles showing where gun turrets were taken out to save weight when hauling the 9,600-lb. Little Boy atom bomb. Back in the bomb bay work is going on to reconstruct the single hook used to suspend and release the bomb. A normal double hook for bombs was abandoned by the mission planners, who feared, if one malfunctioned, the armed bomb might dangle in the rack like hell on a tether. You remember the day 44 years ago on a college campus when the news came of the Enola Gay's successful drop...
Lehtinen has been under fire before. As a commander in Viet Nam in 1971, he was disfigured by shrapnel on the left side of his face and blinded in one eye. After 18 months and four operations to reconstruct his cheek and jaw, he went to Stanford Law, where he graduated first in his class. A Democrat until he changed parties in 1985, he served in the Florida legislature for nearly eight years. His conservative views impressed former Attorney General Edwin Meese, who appointed him to his present post...
...supposed to write an opinion piece for today. Instead, the Social Studies concentrator selfishly chose to work on his thesis. As he ran out of the Crimson building towards Widener--mumbling something about "not graduating"--a stack of papers fell out of his bag. We were able to reconstruct the following from his notes...