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...Fusion...
Sometimes the author inserts a single, striking philosophic insight into a narrative passage. Writing of his love for foreign cities, he asks "and how came it that pleasure is so intertwined, so at home with Necessity?" Describing a mosque, he "sensed with deep joy the fusion of two great qualities: ecstasy and precision... For all this decoration is the dream of a master mathematician. As the line progresses and unwinds, it becomes the abstract expression--the distillation of all plants, all animals, and all thoughts...
...heat chimney. Into the chimney they dropped eight finned, 130 lb. bombs which spewed a cloud of minute silver iodide particles as they fell. The crystals acted like small ice "seeds," and supercooled droplets of water instantly froze around them. Instant icing released the latent heat of fusion, equivalent to the energy of eight 20-kiloton atomic bombs. In one hour, radar showed that a 160° segment of the chimney had been knocked out. Maximum wind speeds dropped by as much as 14% in the seeded sector. But two hours after seeding stopped, Esther had repaired the damage...
...Then he winked, "But that doesn't mean I went to sleep early." Macapagal and the Tunku roared with laughter. Getting down to business, the three leaders swiftly approved the principle of a loose association of the future Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia, to be known, by syllabic fusion, as Maphilindo. But then came the blow from Sukarno, who has long opposed Malaysia, has only lately and reluctantly accepted the idea. Sukarno insisted on a full-scale referendum in Sarawak and North Borneo before Malaysia comes into existence, to "ascertain" whether these territories really want the federation. They plainly...
...President Janio Quadros put out to sea in a fit of pea-green pique in 1961. Blaming Brazil's ills on the calendar is like blaming winter on the woolly bear; but last week, as Brazilians watched their potentially prosperous country sink deeper into economic and political con fusion, it must have been August's fault. It could hardly be President João Goulart's; he hadn't done anything...