Word: warps
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...there was some give-and-take in the geometry of reality. What if space-time--an entity Einstein invented to incorporate the three familiar dimensions of space with a fourth dimension, time--was curved, and not flat, as had been assumed? His idea was that mass and energy would warp space-time in some manner yet to be determined. Objects like apples or planets would try to move in straight lines through space-time, but their paths would appear to be bent by a gravitational field because space-time is curved...
...wife Kasturba. At 16 he left his dying father's side to make love to her. His father died that night, and Gandhi could never forgive himself the "double shame." He neglected and even humiliated Kasturba most of his life and only after her death realized she was "the warp and woof of my life." At 36, convinced that sex was the basis of all impulses that must be mastered if man was to reach Truth, he renounced it. An aspirant to a godly life must observe the Hindu practice of Brahmacharya, or celibacy, as a means of self-control...
...Step One ("we can have lots of fun"): This issue bites the style of FM back-the-day. That's FM, as it were. Enter the time-warp...
...Enter the aforementioned time warp. Hello, Ghost of FM Past...
First off, he scheduled a meeting four days later at Dick Clark Productions to discuss new quiz-show possibilities. Normally, nursing programs from the brainstorming stage to the air can take forever, but this time the process kicked in at warp speed. Greed will premier on Fox this Thursday at 9 p.m. E.T. and run for three weeks, or longer if it proves to be a ratings winner...