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...deceleration forces nearly 20 times as great as than Earth's gravity. In order to survive, the spaceship had to approach the planet at an angle of about 14.2[degrees]. "Go in too steep and you could crash and burn," says Pathfinder project scientist Matthew Golombek. "Go in too shallow and you skip back...
...zeal to convey the importance of the games, Herz occasionally loses her edge and blindly defends them against all criticism. Her responses to the bimboesque portrayal of women and the questionable values that the gorier games convey to children, for example, feel as shallow as an Aqua-Fresh smile (a Herzian saying). The games' shameless pandering to adolescent fantasies is explained with little more than a breezy "what teenage boys want, teenage boys get," while growing parental concern is briskly dismissed as "adults freaking out about their precious darlings being driven to new heights of deviancy by popular media...
...Barnes and Noble-type bookstores are very shallow," said Louisa Solano, owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop. "We're here to show that thought and imagination can endure...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton is tripping over his own symbolism on race. Having spent the weekend defending his race initiatives from critics including Jesse Jackson who say it's a shallow, cosmetic approach to a serious problem, the President is stalling on supporting a bill once again making its way through the House that would authorize an official apology for slavery. "To say it's wrong and that we're sorry about it is not a bad thing,? Clinton said Monday. ?That doesn't weaken us. Now, whether this legislation should pass, I just need some time to think about...
...most influential people in the U.S. [THE TIME 25, April 21] was a sad commentary on the direction in which American society is evolving. There was a time when American icons influenced history by their strong moral leadership. Today they are predominantly career bureaucrats, par-tisan activists, shallow entertainers, mediocre musicians, salvation gurus, shock artists and others who make a living dredging the murky depths of society. In a society where the social fabric is frayed and there is little role for human values, any icon that people can cling to seems a good one. The process that makes most...