Word: unstuck
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...exclamation point for the Rockies came on a rainy, frigid Sunday night more suited to a whaling expedition: after Torrealba's three-run homer in the sixth inning unstuck a 1-1 nail biter, the next Rockie up, Jeff Baker, lined a single. Then he tried to steal second base. Hurdle had sent a subtle pre-Series message to the American League: We never rest, we never quit, no matter the circumstances...
...Northern Rock, the U.K.'s fifth-biggest mortgage provider, came unstuck when the wholesale loan markets it leans on for a huge slice of its funds dried up amid the global squeeze on credit triggered last month. An emergency, short-term credit line, agreed with the Bank of England late last week, was supposed to reassure savers their cash was safe. Northern Rock, insisted the Financial Services Authority over the weekend, was "open for business...
...German, French and Dutch institutions have already come unstuck through exposure to the subprime debts. Northern Rock's problem: Its modest savings business compared to its mortgage lending arm means it leans on wholesale credit markets for a larger share of its funding than its rivals. With that well drying up, it "hits them disproportionately," says Alex Potter, an analyst at Collins Stewart in London...
...Taken together, all these changes suggest possibly treacherous times ahead. The cease-fires could come unstuck. The humanitarian crisis in parts of the country could get worse. State structures could further weaken, rendering even more difficult any transition to a future democratic government. And it's not impossible that China's growing presence, combined with rising economic frustrations, will lead to anti-Chinese violence. Sanctions and long-distance condemnation do little to address the multifaceted challenges facing the country today. They were a response to the very different Burma of nearly 20 years ago, when it looked like democracy...
...spiritually empty, hyper-mechanized future dystopia. (Vonnegut mixed literature with science fiction long before it was cool.) His most famous novel - his personal favorite, and the one that deals with most directly with the Dresden disaster - is Slaughterhouse-Five, the story of one Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes "unstuck in time": Billy experiences the events of his life in random order, including his own birth and his own death. Understandably, this imbues him with a weird, almost redemptive fatalism, which is echoed by the narrator, who is Vonnegut himself. "There would always be wars," he writes, "they were...