Word: travels
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Lott may have been playing to the millions of Americans who will soon participate in the second busiest travel week of the year. James McIntyre speaks only for himself. An air-accident investigator, McIntyre observed the hearings as an ex-pilot who flew TWA's New York-Paris route repeatedly with a nearly empty central tank. (Drained to reduce weight, it was filled only for longer flights.) Asked if he'd try it again after the week's disclosures, he replied carefully, "I wouldn't have a problem--in the wintertime...
Just as automobiles followed horses and computers displaced typewriters, so can the advance of technology make today's smokestacks and gas-powered cars look primitive, inefficient and uneconomical. Unlike fossil fuels, renewable energy never runs out, and geologists will not have to travel to the Alaskan North Slope or the shores of the Caspian Sea to find new sources. The sunlight falling on the surface of the earth each day contains 6,000 times as much energy as is used by all countries combined. Studies show that covering the existing flat-roof space of many cities with solar cells could...
...their illegal activities, and it was more than another year before they were sentenced to prison on April 15, 1996. "No matter the substance of complaints against cops," says McGuire, "if it's only the victim's word against the cop's, it's a hard road to travel, and it always takes too much time." For the city and federal prosecutors considering Colbert's complaint, getting Ryan to "rat out" proved easy. "If Ryan had held fast, they couldn't have got us," says Blondie. "He was always a weak sister." The pressure on Ryan was great. He "faced...
...monstrous size, the nutcracker comes to life and leads the toy soldiers into battle against the mice. With a little help from Clara, he defeats the mouse king and is transformed by Drosselmeyer into a handsome prince. After a lovely interlude in a snowy forest, Clara and her nutcracker travel in a magic balloon to the Kingdom of Sweets, where they are greeted by the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier and regaled by an array of exotic divertissements, ending with a beautiful pas de deux by their hosts...
...student seeking a place for quiet, intellectual conversation or for the Cambridge resident looking for a travel guide, the revamped Harvard bookstore wants your attention--but in a subtle...