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...grown man, for that matter. Virgin group director Will Whitehorn sprang up to one of the coaches and pressed his face to the shiny aluminum skin. He later told Branson: "You're going to wet yourself when you see it." If Britain's dodgy railroad tracks were only up to the task, the train could hit 225 km/h. Even as it is, it should cut the trip between London and Manchester to two hours, down from two hours and 40 minutes, when it joins the fleet in 2002, Whitehorn says. But the train has one other, perhaps more urgent, mission...
...time to legally recognize the potential threat that certain breeds of dogs pose to public safety. As the owner of four dogs, two retrievers, one small poodle mix and a German shepherd, I can say without a doubt that my German shepherd is far more than a wet-nosed pet; his reaction to a perceived threat against me or my child could be a fatal...
...that energy is the essence of matter: "All things change to fire,/ and fire exhausted/ falls back into things." The metaphor of Heraclitean fire posited an absolutely unstable world, in constant flux, consuming and creating, the alternation and reconciliation of day and night, waking and sleeping, life and death, wet and dry, good and evil. "What was cold soon warms,/ and warmth soon cools./ So moisture dries,/ and dry things drown." And: "The earth is melted/ into the sea/ by that same reckoning/ whereby the sea/ sinks into the earth...
...work in an office and be efficient--as opposed to at 16, when you put on a business suit and it was seen as funny. At 19 you can undertake serious projects and achieve, but still expect to be helped along by friendly professionals because you're "still wet behind the ears," still a "teenager," still a touch "naive" and in need of general guidance...
...furry ones. In a priceless understatement, a recent commission report on the practice concluded that the experience of being torn limb from limb by a pack of hounds "seriously compromises the welfare of the fox." But as the spirited parliamentary debate revealed, this principle is as slippery as a wet fox in a rabbit hole...