Word: runaways
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...yoyos, rocks, dinosaur drool, the works. When Trevor spits water into the sink, you're the sink. The movie falls short only of theme-park 3D attractions, like Walt Disney World's "Honey, I Blew Up the Kids," where you get spritzed at the end. Journey also has a runaway-tram ride that will remind you of the one in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but which I'd like to think is a tribute to the roller-coaster ride in the 1953 movie This Is Cinerama (another gimmick process that premiered in the middle of the original...
...financial and environmental bill for a century of runaway growth and exploitation is coming due. The housing bust has exposed a human pyramid scheme - an economy that relied on a thousand newcomers a day, too many of them construction workers, mortgage bankers, real estate agents and others whose livelihoods depended on importing a thousand more newcomers the next day. And the elaborate water-management scheme that made southern Florida habitable has been stretched beyond capacity, yo-yoing between brutal droughts and floods, converting the Everglades into a tinderbox and a sewer, ravaging the beaches, bays, lakes and reefs that made...
...pivotal moment in Huckleberry Finn is when Huck decides not to do what his conscience tells him is right, to turn in "Miss Watson's Jim" as a runaway slave. Instead, he decides to abide by his personal affection for Jim, although the upshot will be, according to all he has been taught, eternal damnation for violating the norms of society and its view that a slave is the rightful property of its owner...
...platform and that takes time. Zuckerberg speaks in a steady, mellifluous tenor; he has a long neck and tends to point his chin upward, as if aiming the bell of a saxophone. "A lot of the last year in developing the platform has just been keeping up with the runaway success there," he says...
...like the prospect of being turned into exotic atomic material without your consent, then perhaps you should consider what’s behind door number two: magnetic monopoles, which “catalyze the decay of protons and atoms” leading to “a runaway reaction.” However, my personal favorite is option number three: a micro black hole. According the complaint filed in court, the growing micro black hole would eventually envelop the entire planet, “converting earth into a medium-sized black hole, around which would continue to orbit the moon...