Word: trickyness
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If the tiles weren't responsible, the sheer turbulence of re-entry might have been. It's not for nothing that the first commander of a shuttle flight was Gemini and Apollo veteran John Young, widely respected as an iceman at the stick. If you're going to fly so...
Uncomfortable questions follow. “Know thy enemy” is Dumbledore’s ostensible rationale for escorting Harry through his nemesis’ past. “How else will you find out his weaknesses?” reasons Hermione. But then things start to get tricky...
But what if the benefits provided by such dams could be replaced? Would that make their removal politically palatable? In a thick report on Hetch Hetchy released last fall, Environmental Defense argued that there are alternative ways to provide both the water and the power currently supplied by the O...
Peter O'Toole has faced downsome acting challenges in his day. (Lawrence of Arabia springs to mind.) But the movie he is making now is particularly treacherous. "What's the old clich?" he asks. "Don't act with children and dogs? Well, try children, dogs, horses and hounds, coal...
Education is a tricky battleground. "There's an emotion to it that makes it different from day laborers hanging out in front of the Home Depot," says Krikorian. In North Carolina an in-state-tuition bill died in committee in May after talk radio helped stir a furor "one hundred...