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...angle of ascent, more appropriate to a ladder than a staircase, forced me to clutch the sides as I groped along in a decidedly unroyal manner. Two stories above, I emerged from the false dusk into an open-air corridor lined with plants potted in a variety of old tin cans. Our guide motioned us to wait while he checked if the king would...
...course, after all that work, one of the pieces was missing, but we put our heads together and fashioned a new one from an aluminum tin. (It stood up to the propane for almost three minutes.) Then on went the hamburgers and hot dogs. They too were mutilated a bit when we poked them to check the pinkness of the interior, but after running through a few packages of meat, we four grill novices had it down to a science. As we lay back and munched on our fare doused with condiments courtesy of the mess hall...
...anti-spacesuit spacesuit is made of an elastic, skintight material, lightweight enough to allow astronauts to walk, run or even scale mountains on a moon or planet's surface - acts that are physically impossible using NASA's current Tin Man-like designs. The form-fitting style of the new suit doesn't just make for a beguiling photo op; it also keeps astronauts alive by creating what scientists call mechanical counter pressure, which balances out the vacuum pull of space. The spacesuits worn today use gas pressurization - they create a small Earth-like atmosphere inside the suit, which exerts...
...enterprising spirit and a community-savings scheme, she can obtain small loans to keep her business going or cover the costs of a family emergency. But Margaret knows no matter how hard she works, her family members will probably live out their lives in a one-room tin shack with no electricity, water or sewage. They are trapped in Kibera, a squalid slum where 1 million Kenyans struggle to survive, passing poverty on from one generation to the next...
...receive an email news update about poor children in South Africa from a missionary friend? She writes over a shaky Internet connection, “I love working with the AIDS orphans, but it's sad. One group of kids has no toys and one group is living in tin shacks. They are cold and have water dripping in on them. We are building new housing for them. Please pray as we raise money for the project...