Word: retractment
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...nation that gave the world Blitzkrieg. They then follow up by lying to the world's media, sending out a global sigh of relief - which makes the front page from London to Tel Aviv - with a communiqu? announcing that all of the hostages have been freed alive, only to retract the following day and admit they're all dead...
...endeavoring to wipe out these pockets of ignorance. "I didn't have liposuction," says Rich about his new svelte-ish physique. "But if you saw that flopping around stuff on the last episode--I had that removed. It's called resection, and it's skin that could not retract from having lost more than 140 lbs. It had been stretched past the point of healthily ever being able to come back." While we await word on Rich's sebaceous cysts, the Survivor king and his island mates have committed to taping a special series of Hollywood Squares, to air Sept...
...crew's exhaustive simulator training would have kicked in as soon as the problem emerged. Marty would have tried to hold the plane steady, but it would have been a wrestling match. Someone in the plane reported that they were unable to retract the landing gear. With the gear down and dragging on the plane's aerodynamics, and with two engines apparently failing, the Concorde's fate was sealed. "The Concorde is a technical masterpiece, but with two engines failing and a fire on takeoff, the crew had little real hope," says former pilot Manton Fain. About a minute after...
WHEELS The Concorde's 10 wheels retract hydraulically...
...emergency in the region. But the shooting and bombing have continued, and on June 29 an overloaded boat carrying an estimated 491 refugees who were fleeing the violence sank, leaving just 10 survivors. Last week Wahid suggested that some legislators should be detained for inciting violence--only to retract the statement a day later. The U.S. State Department and the Pope have called for decisive action to end the fighting, but concern is growing that Wahid has no concrete strategy for dealing with any of Indonesia's multiple problems...