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...photos offer no evidence of the debris typical of an airplane crash (discounting expert explanations that the extreme violence of the impact and heat of the explosion caused virtual atomization of the jet), and says the area of destruction to the Pentagon is impossibly small given the size and span of the craft...
While Crockett’s performance was characteristically impressive because it concluded a four-day span that saw him pitch 18 innings, Nyweide had thrown just 6.2 innings with a 9.45 ERA in his last two starts...
...pointing by 1 year --No babbling by 1 year; no single words by 16 months; no two-word phrases by 24 months --Any loss of language skills at any time --No pretend playing --Little interest in making friends --Extremely short attention span --No response when called by name; indifference to others --Little or no eye contact --Repetitive body movements, such as hand flapping, rocking --Intense tantrums --Fixations on a single object, such as a spinning fan --Unusually strong resistance to changes in routines --Oversensitivity to certain sounds, textures or smells...
...span of 90 seconds, I learned two very important things about the world of motorcycles...
...action, romance and character is a sense of political drama, prefigured in Phantom Menace. If that movie had a message, it was: Take a meeting. The film often went logy from all its earnest senatorial harrumphing, which was every bit as compelling as a lazy committee hearing on C-SPAN. Politics is important in Clones too, but as a running three-cornered debate: Padme's idealism colliding with Obi-Wan's cynicism and Anakin's budding realpolitik...