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...position, it would just shut down again. So technicians have to carve up cities into electrically isolated pieces and bring each neighborhood back up one by one in bite-size chunks that the system can handle. As they build more and more islands, they can start to string them together, but try to move too fast, and the whole thing goes dark again. Nuclear-power plants usually take at least 24 hours to restart...
Echoing the account of Trombly and several prosecution witnesses, Byrne acknowledged that he replied with a string of profanity strewn insults, but adamantly maintained that he drew the line at insulting Trombly’s mother, as the prosecution claimed...
...very Waspy and Middle American, but it perfectly suited a great age of denial. Then, of course, comedy changed. Sometime in the '60s, it became more personal--more ethnic, more neurotic, even more socially critical--at which point Hope began to seem old-fashioned, someone whose endless string of top-rated NBC specials "skewed old" demographically. The younger, hipper crowd wanted more bite...
...radioactive dye that he hoped would track blood flow in the brain, lighting up the parts that were the most active. But the only way for Newberg to freeze-frame the exact moment when they reached their meditative peak was to sit in the next room, tie a string around his finger and snake the other end under the door and leave it next to the meditators. When they reached meditative Nirvana, they pulled the string, and Newberg released the dye into the subjects' arms. His results showed that the brain doesn't shut off when it meditates but rather...
...sorta took off from there"). During the show they all meet in an office decorated with her old TV Guide covers, and she gives them the assignment: figure out a way, any way, to get her back on TV. "What do I want?" she asks, after shooting down a string of ideas. "I just want to do that talk show again...