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...initial public response to the murder of his son, seemed aware of this. The man who single-handedly updated the middle-class patriarch as a TV icon, who made the small screen safe again for displays of frank morality, loving discipline and gruff exasperation, may have sensed straightaway that the death in his family made him a kind of reluctant griever in chief. So instead of asking for sympathy, he offered it--to families who'd experienced similar tragedies. Cosby seemed more concerned about his audience's pain than his own. Considering the permeable borders between art and life these...
...original design was begun by a Harvard civil engineering professor, L.J. Johnson. The stadium's horseshoe shape was adopted because track meets were to be held there, necessitating a 220-yard straightaway...
...that causes a schedule delay of some sorts, hell, shorten that damn 162-game season. Siphon off any excess games to Philly's recreated Connie Mack Stadium (468 to center, over 400 in both of its alleys) or the Old Yankee stadium (a simply indecent 497 feet to straightaway center).Simmer for a few months, then serve. Rabbit ball THIS! [Wicked cackle heard in background...
SLAC. Burton Richter, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is the maverick of particle physics. While others have recently concentrated on circular accelerators, he has touted the merits of linear models. His latest machine shoots streams of electrons and positrons down a straightaway and then loops them through two semicircular sections onto a collision course. Linear accelerators cannot produce nearly as many collisions as do circular models of comparable power, but Richter claims that the noncircular approach can be an economical way to make discoveries in the vanguard of physics...
...Guevara's story of how he became head of the National Bank of Cuba in 1959. Fidel Castro asked the assembled leaders of his revolution, "Tell me, friends, which of you is an economist?" "Che paused. 'I thought he had said, "Which of you is a communist?," so straightaway I said, "I am," at which he said, "OK, you handle the economy...