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...lift-off, leaving NASA with nothing to do but wait out the flight and hope that the skin had not been denuded in a critically hot spot. In a worst-case scenario, just a few missing tiles in even a relatively low-temperature area could lead to a fatal chain reaction, with possibly hundreds of them peeling away...
...British charity Oxfam. "If I'm paying nearly $3 for a cup of coffee and some Ethiopian farmer gets 2% of that," he says, "where does the rest of it go?" Saying he is reluctant to be "just a windbag" on fair trade, Firth has also invested in a chain of coffee shops in London that pledges to compensate the crop's farmers fairly. He has worked the counter and participated in coffee tastings. "You swirl, you spit, and someone talks poetry about it," he says...
...through the night and eating breakfast long before dawn. Theodore (Dutch) Van Kirk had pineapple fritters. "I love the damn things," Van Kirk, 84, says today from his home in Stone Mountain, Ga. "I'll never forget the pineapple damn fritters." The Enola Gay left Tinian, in the Marianas chain, at 2:45 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive over Hiroshima, a city at the south end of the Japanese island of Honshu, at 8:15 a.m.; the crew was 15 seconds later than planned. The plane then dropped a single bomb, weighing five tons. Says Van Kirk...
...Clinton Administration, argues that by talking of a new type of bomb, the Administration is undercutting its own efforts to persuade others to stay out of the nuclear game. Nunn makes the point more colorfully. Other countries, he says, "have a hard time taking instructions from a chain smoker to quit smoking and to help us keep others from starting to smoke...
Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating when I say that I don’t have a summer job, but to me, it certainly feels like that’s the case. Though I technically work part-time for a well-known retail clothing chain and volunteer at an elected official’s re-election campaign where I do exciting tasks like writing formulaic letters and addressing envelopes, I still feel that there is no true purpose to my summer...