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...ostriches may spend their full 40-year adult life span together. Easily frightened, the birds, which can run at a 60 m.p.h. clip, sometimes cripple themselves dashing headlong into fences. But in the mating season a male ostrich will attack a man, can disembowel him with a single downward kick of his two-toed foot, whose claw is the size of a railroad spike...
...capitalization (e.g., bonds, preferred stock) has a fixed claim on earnings, any sum above that claim is available for common stock dividends. Thus when earnings are high, value of the common goes up fast. But when earnings are low the common stock, which gets the last pickings, skitters downward...
...retorted Physicist Ralph E. Lapp, author of the un-scared book, Must We Hide?. Explosions often have freakish effects. Even comparatively feeble ones have freakishly broken windows many miles away, leaving nearer windows unbroken. One cause: an "inversion" (layer of warm air) in the atmosphere, that reflects shock waves downward -and may concentrate them...
Holmes, a slender, 39-year-old Negro, had loosened a piece of slate on the floor under the bunk in his cell. Then he chipped patiently through ten inches of concrete, burrowed diagonally downward for ten feet and leveled off under the massive stone wall. He kept digging, tunneled on under a dry moat, then turned upward again. He had 26 feet to go to reach the surface...
...same time, another group inside the committee is said to have asked for more scholarships and a downward adjustment of admissions requirements as a direct move to attract more would-be athletes to the College. Nevertheless, it was reliably understood that the weekend meetings had not changed the previous feelings of a majority of the committee...