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...await a new golden age. But first he must burn away the dross of Bolshevism and Jewry. The verbiage grows wild and the mind bloats. Wagener's unintended legacy is a lesson on how a haunted medieval mind could effectively debase reason in the name of reason. --By R.Z. Sheppard...
...apart, and it is not hard to understand why. The myth of transcendence inherent in flying separates those who do from those who don't. It is as if Yeager and his comrades evolved from birds while the earthbound dropped from trees to become prisoners of gravity. --By R.Z. Sheppard...
Jannine and John Cody were packing to move from Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, to Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio in 1985 when a military doctor gave them some devastating news. Their 6-week-old daughter Elizabeth was missing part of her 18th chromosome. To explain what that meant, the doctor showed Jannine a textbook with a horrifying picture and caption that she still keeps in her files. It read, "They are probably the most seriously afflicted among carriers of chromosome abnormalities. They maintain the froglike position observed in infants and are reduced...
...much to talk about that we couldn't have with nonsiblings present, stuff from childhood when our hearts were open, and now we carry it everywhere we go. We were in London, having supper at the pub on the Thames where the gallows once stood where the highwayman Jack Sheppard swung back in the time of George I, and the river reminded us of the Mississippi, and pretty soon my brother was telling how he found a .32cal. pistol in a cornfield behind the house when he was 15 and carried it around on his person for a few days...
...Southern Tigers, who are in first place, have two African-American imports?Nick Sheppard, from Pepperdine via the Harlem Globetrotters, and Jason Dixon, out of Liberty University by way of Turkey, Israel, Argentina, Sweden and Cyprus. But as Healthy Ma says, it's a team game. The visitors' homegrown guards are as quick as cats, darting untouched among the grasping Shanghainese...