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...Voice of Thunder," as it became known in the pre-independence days of Free Bangladesh Radio, rolled across the multitude squatting on the dry yellow grass of the Dacca race course. "If the people of Bangladesh don't want me to contest the elections, then I don't want to sit in the National Assembly. Any one of you can go and sit there instead of me. Shall I contest the election? Should I? If you want me to contest, then raise your hand. Raise both hands to show you want me." Nearly half a million pairs...
...Armstrong set his booted foot into the moon dust; the vision of the earth from space, a milky sapphire hanging alone and fragile in the blackness; and then Apollo 17 -a pillar of fire cutting up into the night, spreading a carpet of orange clouds and the sound of thunder behind...
Expansion. One solution would be to reduce the hostility to airports by changing the nature of airplanes. If a much quieter plane could be developed -and engine manufacturers are beginning to muffle the thunder of the biggest new jets-then the major complaint against airports would be removed. Similarly, the development of a quiet STOL (for short take-off and landing) plane would make better use of short runways that either now exist (the U.S. has 12,000 airports, more than half of which are small, unlit fields) or could be built in strategic urban locations. In theory, the STOL...
Koetsu and Sotatsu reacted against the hard, linear, brushpoint drawing derived from the Chinese that dominated Japanese art in the early 17th century; instead they used the mokkotsu or "boneless" technique, dropping pigment into wet pigment, staining and mottling the shapes of flowers, twigs and thunder-god with infinitely subtle gradations of color, preparing the paper with washes of gold or silver dust or with a snowy, glistening mixture of eggshell white and flakes of mica. These hallmarks-which must in their time have seemed very "Japanese," in elaborate contrast to the austerities of Chinese brush technique-helped form...
...America, weather conditions in Australia, political jockeying in the Middle East, rumored tax increases in Japan. In the chateau's former living room, a dozen or so executives scan an electronic quote board which tells them the price of soybeans in Chicago, wheat in Kansas City, rapeseed in Thunder Bay and oats in Winnipeg. On the basis of that information, Cargill executives decide what to buy, sell or hedge, often risking sums approaching $ 100 million...