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...poem includes the lines, “When your steam machine roars/I hear bulls thunder through holy Pamplona/Your caffeine music kindles my veins...
...cells in our bodies die, not because they just run out of steam, but because their DNA tells them it's time to go - to make room for new cells, for example. When the process goes out of control, though, diseases like stroke, heart attack and degeneratative illnesses of the central nervous system can result; when it fails, you can get the unrelenting growth of cancer...
...could afford to send Ella to a $7,000-a-year private preschool, have regular dates at nice restaurants and take advantage of the booming market by investing in mutual funds. But by the time their son Asher was born in February 2001, the economy was running out of steam, most of Michael's clients were running away, and the family's investments were tanking...
...expressed our fundamental disagreement with divestment from Israel last May, as that movement was picking up steam on campuses across the U.S. But our reasoning, unlike Summers', had nothing to do with the so-called anti-Semitism of its proponents—the divestment movement undermines efforts toward a settlement by making Israel insecure, and peace will never be reached when either Israelis or Palestinians feel like they are under attack...
...tourists might have doubts about Flores (arrivals last year barely topped 11,000, fewer than Bali's Denpasar airport handles on a busy day). Eight volcanoes grumble and belch sulfurous steam along the island's twisted, 360-kilometer spine. Most of them have erupted in the past century or two. The surrounding seabed is crosshatched with fault lines. Maumere, in the local dialect, means "big sea," suggesting the recent tsunami wasn't the first. It doesn't help that the noisy bemos?gaudily painted minibuses that zip around the snaking roads?are emblazoned with biblical names like Golgotha, Revelation...