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...controlled than a free fall. In the cockpit, Jollota could hear the thunk-thunk-thunk of his rotors punctuated by the deadly whoosh of rocket-propelled grenades. With two Rangers still on the ropes, the chopper took a direct hit that chewed holes in a main rotor blade. The steel-nerved pilot bit off the impulse to flee. "It was remarkable," said a crewman aboard a nearby helicopter. "They just sat there as the RPGS whistled around them." Only when his men had slid to safety did Jollota begin limping back to base...
...wall (then delivering the famous, "do you need help cleaning yours?" line), Kowalski proves himself to be the insensitive, oversexed image of what it is to be a (grunt) real man. He is juxtaposed with Blanche's swaying, swooning, gauzy manners, which explode to reveal a core of steel. The intensity of their exchanges and the force of their personalities make watching these two characters emotionally taxing for the audience...
...think of as their dignity. In a country where childhood and children go into Dumpsters, where women's bodies (and men's and children's too) are treated like garbage in the $8 billion-a-year pornography industry, and where popular culture itself, sluicing through the ever efficient, stainless-steel First Amendment, is a Mississippi's inundation of septic personal garbage and out- of-control behavior (somehow most of the themes come together in the case of Michael Jackson and his family), perhaps it is simply men's turn to be treated like garbage as well...
STRUCTURAL DESIGN. Structural engineers emphasized two simple guidelines: for houses, flexible wood is better than static brick; and for large buildings, steel is far superior to concrete, which, no matter how much it is reinforced, can crumble like stale cake. "It's quite simple: if you want to be safe in an earthquake, the best thing you can do is build in steel," said engineer Peter Yanev, president of EQE. He pointed to a relatively new concrete parking structure that collapsed at the California State University campus in Northridge and to two adjacent multistory garages in Sherman Oaks...
...variations. Japan, for example, has equipped buildings with computer-controlled systems that dynamically compensate for quake-induced motion; if an earthquake tips a building forward, these systems can activate massive weights and "thrusters" that force it in the opposite direction. Less expensive are suspension systems like the rubber- and-steel sandwich -- with a dense lead core to absorb energy -- that enabled the University of Southern California Hospital to ride out the quake like a jeep on a bumpy road...