Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Constructed of epoxy and graphite-fiber composites and crammed with advanced electronics, the DC-X was designed to take advantage of a burst of technological progress -- and it shows. Thanks to a skin as thin as a credit card, which replaces the heavy aluminum shell of conventional spacecraft, the rocket is light enough to leap into orbit in a single bound, avoiding the wasteful shedding of expensive booster stages. The DC-X is the world's first fully reusable spacecraft, and its myriad computer systems make it easy to launch and repair. It can be fired off by a crew...
...Dances with Wolves brought Native American culture into sharp visual focus. Rappers like TLC were among the first to embrace the look: wide chokers, clunky bolo ties (often on bare chests), fanciful belts. Other rockers -- Lenny Kravitz and Jon Bon Jovi -- have followed along. Janet Jackson flaunts a white-shell-and- silver Mummy's Bundle choker on her new videos. On MTV, the veejays are decked out in silver and bone. Angelique Bianca, guitarist for a group called -- what else? -- the Indians, wears the jewelry as a form of environmental protest. "The earth is being raped," she says. "The truth...
Sometimes critics are human -- or a reasonable facsimile thereof. They like a good cry at the movies. They can get all sniffly and teary, just like real people, when somebody falls in love or dies. The candy shell of their heart can melt into chocolate when a kid hugs a whale. What separates critics from you is that inside the chocolate they must nurture the hard nut of cool judgment. They must know the difference between a good cry -- emotion earned by film artistry, as in E.T. or Greta Garbo's Camille or, for that matter, The Secret Garden...
Doug and his friend Scott, 15, debated this problem for several days, turning the shotgun over and over in their hands, carefully inspecting and cleaning every part. They bought a box of shells from a friend and practiced loading and unloading the gun. Finally one Saturday, they drove out of town and headed for the countryside. "We didn't know quite what we were going to do until we found this tree near a cornfield that was split right down the middle into a V," says Doug. He loaded one shell and carefully worked the gun into the crotch...
Gone are the tragic images of vacant-eyed skeletal children dying by the thousands in Somali villages. In their place are equally troubling images of shell-shattered civilians and Mogadishu mobs, fists raised in anger against the mounting violence. "It is more dangerous today in Mogadishu than at any time during the civil war," says Howard Bell, country director for the relief agency CARE...