Word: roundabouts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Undaunted by these challenges, some space experts have already begun planning the Mars itinerary, devising a variety of baroque flight paths to save on energy and thus fuel. One trip, for example, would require a roundabout swing past Venus, which would lend the craft a gravitational boost in acceleration. On the voyage, the crew module would constantly spin, to provide artificial gravity, and would be equipped with an automatic solar monitoring system and a shielded "storm cellar" in the event-of a solar flare. To give the crew emotional solace in the blackness of space, the interior could be decorated...
...Where "Little Lulu," and most every kid's comic of the time, maintains a strict grid structure for a layout, and simplified, "cute" characters, the Nick Mag comics explode with a variety of visual styles. Craig Thompson's "Juanita and Clem" strip takes the reader's eye on a roundabout, tour of the entire page as Clem, a frog-like creature in a purple suit, searches for water to pour over Juanita's flowers. Scott McCloud, who's seminal book "Understanding Comics" attempts to define comics and how we read them, contributes a two page strip on how comics...
...mortarman were fine-tuning his coordinates. The final mortar sailed over the Australians' heads and onto the garage of a house opposite the embassy; nobody was injured. A few hours later, lights in the houses near the embassy blacked out when a car bomb exploded at a roundabout 400 m down the road. It was the second car bomb near the embassy in eight months: the first went off near a small hotel less than 100 m from the embassy, killing a young boy. On Oct. 26, three Australian soldiers were wounded when their light armored vehicles were...
There in the Beren Center, I hope, in an odd, roundabout sort of way, that they got the same...
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