Word: fragments
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Columbia disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere due to the failure of its heat shield. The shield was damaged during the initial launch by a loose fragment of foam. The space shuttle Discovery’s last mission, which was launched one year ago, also shed foam debris during its launch but landed without major complications...
...think it's possible. I think it's necessary. It is required. It's clear that it's difficult, but I think it is urgent, because the country is in a crisis situation, and crises can fragment and polarize or bring people together. For the Iraqi leadership, this is the time of very, very important decisions, and I believe that working with them, we can achieve these goals. But it will take time. It takes effort, it's hard. It's hard for them because of this lack of trust...
...first episode opens with an eerie reading, set to music, of a William S. Burroughs prose fragment about the Egyptian belief that we have seven souls: "Number six is Khaibit, the Shadow, Memory, your whole past conditioning from this and other lives." The shadows and memories of the dead hover close over the show, as the rubout fallout from the whackings of Adriana (Drea de Matteo) and Tony B. (Steve Buscemi) continues, not to mention Tony's continuing baggage inherited from his late mother Livia. There's a general sense, in this last season, of a deathbed taking-stock, even...
...George’s idea of essentially shattering the genome and then amplifying each of those different pieces in situ...has really stimulated the field of single fragment sequencing,” he said. “[He] has been a leading thinker in pushing forward to develop new genomic technologies...
...Harvard’s plans for Allston continuing to develop. We appreciate the work of University planners and believe that one of their proposals for undergraduate housing in Allston is close to perfect. At the same time, we strongly warn against adopting alternate plans that will disrupt or fragment the College community. Though the movement into Allston promises to be a long and somewhat painful process, we are confident that it will be remembered as a great triumph for Harvard University and each of its branches...