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...planned this to torment me,' " a homosexual masseur protests. "He stood on the deck, holding a plastic lemon at elaborate arm's-length. 'You couldn't possibly buy artificial lemon juice, someone left it here, it's a bad joke...
...this day," she says. The beat of Liberation Now gets louder. "Ah, they're not burning any bras; let's get out of here," a man mutters. "Flags, flags, flags for sale-look real good on television," that old man calls. A woman tries to interest the photographers in plastic playground equipment she is demonstrating. They ignore...
...plane slowed down, the crew blasted open the emergency exits, and passengers began to slide to safety on the plastic evacuation chutes. But Captain Priddy, still unaware of the emergency, inched the 747 forward a few yards, throwing some passengers from the slides. Then the crew was allowed to leave. "You have two minutes," one gunman informed Priddy as he sat in the cockpit. The crew had run only as far as the wingtip when the $25 million craft exploded into a ball of fire. Egyptian authorities seized the three commandos. At week's end, there were still no charges...
Cognitive Ability. To teach Sarah, Psychologist Premack devised symbols cut out of plastic and mounted on metal bases so that Sarah could "write" them on a magnetized board. With practice, Sarah learned that a blue triangle meant an apple, a red square a banana. In time she mastered symbols identifying each of her four trainers, plus other symbols identifying colors and familiar objects such as a pail, a cup and a dish. For example, stands for red, for dish...
...muscles, and any damage, no matter how well repaired, tends to slow down transmission of nerve impulses. To guard against the formation of scars that could impede the impulses, surgeons wrap the freshly sutured ends with fine Silastic tubing, a procedure not unlike wrapping a hair with plastic film...