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...state." Here the dreams of all of the citizens of the empire are brought and interpreted, in the hopes of finding within them a "signal [sent] to the earth" by Allah. Omens in the forms of dreams are sought because "the interpretation of that dream, fallen like a stray spark into the brain of one out of millions of sleepers, may help to save the country or its Sovereign from disaster." Every week, a Master-Dream is sent to the Sultan, supposedly containing information crucial to the governing of the empire. The dynamics of the Palace are as mysterious...
...began to squirm and twitch. Tail and head arched spastically upward to meet the other, reversing the direction of its parabolic arc. The goldfish's contorted torso drilled through the water-weakened paper, slipped bodily through the loop in a fluorescent shimmer, and fell, like a leftover firecracker spark, into the water...
Meanwhile, the passengers in the water struggled to escape from drowning and burning. George Simpson, 73, and his wife Carole, 56, were returning home to Gulf Breeze, Florida, from California on the Sunset Limited when the disaster struck. "Things were exploding all around us," says Carole. "If a spark had gotten near us, there was nothing we could have done...
...used the word processing program on the Commodore perhaps two times afterwards. But I still had about as little interest in a computer's inner workings as I did in a car's. (After a semester of Auto Shop, the only thing I still remember is how to change spark plugs...
...plan had to emphasize preventive care, including physicals and baby checkups, and some controversial procedures like abortion. But it would exclude cosmetic surgery, eyeglasses and borderline therapies, such as weight reduction. The mix was critical: too skimpy a package would anger the middle class; too rich a proposal would spark charges of a giveaway...