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...small grilled window she may look into a chapel, and down a narrow passageway there is another barred window where she takes her daily communion. In the cell is a straight chair, a table, a board that serves as her bed and a small washroom with a cold shower. Not since she closed the door behind her 16 years ago has she ever left this confined area...
...running toward the patio of a friend's home in Seattle. But Gary never reached the patio; he smashed into a sliding glass door that had been closed only minutes before to keep barbecue smoke from blowing into the house. The thin glass exploded in a shower of jagged fragments. It took doctors two hours to make the 64 stitches in Gary's head, wrists and legs...
Taste Surrendered. From the workshops of Rome came a shower of rings, earrings, necklaces, brooches, buckles and tiny busts. When the capital of the empire moved to Constantinople, its jewelry became garish and showy; and when the barbarians swept away the glory that was Rome, taste made its final surrender to superficial glitter. In the 1,000 objects in the Milan show, vanity and art started out as allies, ended as enemies. But rarely has the jeweler's hand produced objects of such intimate charm as it did when the alliance was in full flower...
...increased to 2,000 calories, many lost their appetite. The sailors talked mainly of girls and real food-and in the last few days mostly about food. Though only the two dozen men assigned to step through air locks into a tunnel to check radiation were permitted to shower (a decontamination precaution), the air smelled better than that on a submarine and, says Naval Research Chemist Eugene A. Ramskill, "nowhere near as bad as in a New York nightclub...
...principle at least," replied Kistiakowsky, "one can create weapons which will make shelters less effective. If it is possible--and I'm not for a moment saying that it is--to shower radioactive cobalt in quantities large enough to make the radiation lethal all over the country-side, then a two-week shelter is not enough...