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...passengers are killed immediately, others die slowly of injuries sustained during the first impact or in subsequent, secondary disasters such as floodings and explosions. The only slim hope of survival is to crawl torturously up through the gutted bowels of the ship toward the hull, where the steel is thinnest, hoping that after agonizing hours, help will arrive...
STORYTELLING is a fickle art. A bad narrator can spin the thinnest yarn into a golden web. If the listener's imagination is to be ensnared, delicate tonalities of setting, suspense and mystery must be orchestrated to perfection. The same can also be said of story theatre...
...noble idea leveled with a thud, see your nearest modern Bible. "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher . . ." In one new version his words become, "A vapor of vapors! Thinnest of vapors! All is vapor!"-turning the most passionate cry in the literature of nihilism into a spiritual weather report. The new rendition may be a more literal expression of the Hebrew original, but at what a cost in grace and power...
...payments deficit seems trivial; it has averaged a mere 0.004% of the gross national product. But the dollars thus placed in foreign hands now total $34 billion, while the U.S. stock of gold has dwindled from a postwar peak of $24.6 billion to $10.4 billion last week, the thinnest gold line since 1936. If all the dollar holders demanded gold at once, there would be too little in Fort Knox to satisfy even a third of them. Already whetted, the speculative appetite for gold was only sharpened by the fall of the British pound last November...
...tilting their chromosome specimens, which were taken from a human white blood cell, the German scientists were able to get a side view and measure their thickness-about four-millionths of an inch at their thinnest, center portion and ten-millionths at the thickest part of their "limbs." In Britain, where scientists at St. George's Hospital Medical School are also using scanning electron microscopes to examine chromosomes, the resulting photographs have suggested that chromosomes have an underlying fibrous structure. From these and other scanning electron closeups, scientists hope eventually to gain new insight into the complex processes...