Word: sirs
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Sound implausible? Consider the alternatives. Sir Fred Hoyle, the distinguished British astronomer, favors an even more radical theory. The idea, known as panspermia, is that billions of years ago, the solar system was peppered by biological "seeds," which took root wherever conditions were right. That would explain how life may have arisen at roughly the same time on Earth and on Mars. But it also raises awkward questions about where those seeds came from and what, or who, sent them flying through space...
...DIED. SIR FRANK WHITTLE, 89, engineer who in the 1930s developed the first jet engine for Britain, just as Hans J.P. von Ohain independently built one for Germany; in Columbia, Maryland...
...infuriated the Protestants. For three days, gangs of hooded men blocked roads and torched cars. On Wednesday 180 fires raged, and the commander of Belfast's fire brigade called it his department's busiest night since the Luftwaffe bombed the city in 1941. The following day, ruc Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley reversed his orders. Police began shoving Catholic protesters out of the way and escorting Orangemen down Garvaghy Road. Unionist marches unfolded across the province. When Catholic demonstrators tried to block them, the police went to work with their nightsticks. Running battles ensued, with petrol bombs from rioters...
...Wodehouse's tales of the supreme upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves, a Zen master of irony, By Jeeves has a blitheness that makes the audience feel as if it's on a holiday from the huffery and puffery of the Boublil-Schonberg musicals (and of Sir Andrew's overblown Sunset Blvd...
...genuinely shy. Shy? A man who once made a speech dressed in a bunny suit? He admits he will do almost anything to advance his companies. It's an act that plays well, and compared with the standard model overstuffed British executive--well, the comparison just isn't fair. Sir David Frost, the transatlantic television personality and partner in Virgin Radio, says, "Richard has always presented himself as a rebel against the Establishment, although now he is an establishment...