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...system, NASA set up elaborate reporting channels that produced reams of paper. Quickly the paper became so plentiful that it masked rather than exposed the problems. The Rogers report is expected to detail the extraordinary tale of the now famous O rings, the synthetic-rubber circles, .28 in. thick and 37.5 ft. in circumference, designed to make certain that the superhot gases generated within each solid booster could not escape through the joints of the rocket's segments. When flames did penetrate a rocket joint on Challenger, they ignited the shuttle's external liquid-fuel tank, causing the explosion...
...stillness of its squat figures, the blazing epiphanic color and the clear identification of the Indian flower bearer, bowed under his angelic load of calla lilies, with a priest bowing before celebrants. And though dreadful excesses of cheap tourist cliche would sprout from Rivera's fusion of the thick crankshaft rhythms of pre-Columbian sculpture with the observed faces and bodies of Mexican peasants, there can be no doubt that in his hands, at least, it was a powerful union...
...smooth, connected sentences. As if by conjurer's trick, the laborer is transformed into the scholar, a solitary thinker who shies away from the world of action, a man of introspection who rises early to wrestle with questions of motivation and desire and write about them in a thick loose-leaf notebook...
There was a plastic bat and a plastic ball, a thick slate plate, and a chalk batters box. At Jon's house, we used to play hard ball--until Jon fouled one back through his kitchen window. Then we had to play whiff there...
Still, Southern says, she has only now found her "niche" at Harvard. "I had a difficult time at first because I don't look like a Harvard professor. I don't wear thick-soled shoes; I don't have gray hair; I don't smoke; and I don't even look like a typical woman professor because they are supposed to have white skin and short haircuts, and a gray streak here and there...