Word: skies
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...meantime, Western Europe, the United States and NATO have not yet taken any effective action to halt the Serbians' grave violations of human rights or to help the hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees whose only shelter has been the open sky. We urge the Harvard community to take all possible effective action, as soon as possible, to help to avert disaster and to protect the Kosovo refugees, who are now exposed not only to the harshness of the Balkan winter, but also to Serbian attacks...
When I have already had so much impact at Harvard and show so much promise for the world, why should I worry about something as petty as repentance? I mean, for me, the sky's the limit: Rhodes scholarship, president of the United States, Nobel Prize, a fortune built on a full line of Veggie-Yo products. I don't have time to look back...
...Then there's Angel Technologies, a privately held firm that envisions bouncing signals off a squadron of high-altitude planes circling above metropolitan areas. (Finding pilots may be a problem.) Angel execs say they'll be able to provide commercial Net access by 2000. Another scheme, from Sky Station, would employ blimps the size of football fields, tethered 14 miles above large cities. Last July, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) okayed the radio frequencies that the company will require...
Blake Langhofer was the first to arrive. It was 6:40 a.m., and a sickle moon still hung in the dark sky over Maize High School near Wichita, Kans. In sandals and shorts, Blake, 16, approached his school's blue flagpole. He leaned forward, placed his hands on it and bowed his head. Soon he was joined by four friends, all jeans-clad and smelling sweetly of soap and shampoo. They formed a circle, and someone entreated the Lord aloud: "I pray you do wonders through the pole and let your wonders show through the pole." First a trickle, then...
Sharks cruised by, grays and makos, and cash floated up from the depths. He saw a $1,000 U.S. bill riding a current, absurdly intact, the slow-motion tumble of a dream that makes no sense. Two hundred twenty-nine people had plunged from the sky in unthinkable terror, instant death their only mercy...