Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accounts counter and repair one another, holistic memory emerges. A record of the town history that eludes the wants and needs of particular souls takes shape and begins to take on a sort of independent, convincing veracity. Were it not for witnesses--that is, friends, lovers, and family--audiences would hear the most benign version of events, and dead souls' painful memories would be comfortably elided from their personal histories...
...radio signals, they were able to keep tabs on Ayyash's whereabouts. "From then on, he was in the cross hairs and it was just a matter of time," said the official. Next Ayyash's hunters created problems with his phone line. Through intermediaries, he sent the phone for repair to a Gaza shopkeeper, who forwarded it to an Israeli mobile-phone company, whereupon security officials intercepted it. They sent back a "temporary" loaner, whose earpiece was packed with a tiny but potent bomb. On the morning of Ayyash's death, they phoned him, confirmed his voice on the line...
...divorce was a veritable act of state. For this is the worst-case scenario: Elizabeth suddenly dies, Charles becomes King--and an estranged but undivorced Diana, Queen. Their rival courts would then so conspire against each other that the fabric of the British monarchy might rip beyond repair...
Edward's home on long Island had two-stories and five bedrooms. The overpainted dark brown gable needed repair, and the front garden--which Edward had spent summers cultivating during high school--was barren. Crisp, paper-thin leaves held tentatively to sickly vines, flaking off into small puffs of dust in the wind. Edward heaved a heavy sign and rang the doorbell...
...Hubble with a set of eyeglasses--was a high-cost ($700 million), high-risk venture, and some astronomers were dubious. "They considered the whole thing to be rather a Rube Goldberg creation," says Spitzer. On top of that, the list of tasks assigned to the astronauts who flew the repair mission--not just installing the new optics, but replacing an outdated camera, two wobbly solar-energy panels and three faulty gyroscopes, among other balky components--seemed too long. "I don't think anyone except the astronauts themselves thought they could complete the mission," says Bahcall...